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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
East Ham 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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TABLE 31—
The source or sources from which information as to the above-mentioned cases was obtained:—
| Source of Information. | No. of Cases. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non-pulmonary. | |||||||
| Death returns | from local Registrars | 2 | 5 | |||||
| transferable deaths from Registrar General | 7 | 4 | ||||||
| Posthumous notifications | 3 | 4 | ||||||
| " Transfers " from other areas (other than transferable deaths) | 27 | 4 | ||||||
| Other sources if any (specify) (Merchant Seamen) | 2 | — | ||||||
| Notification Register. | ||||||||
| Number of cases of Tuberculosis remaining at the 31st December, 1934, on the Registers of Notifications kept by the Medical Officer of Health of the County Borough. | Pulmonary | Non-pulmonary | Total Cases | |||||
| Males | Females | Total | Males | Females | Total | |||
| 496 | 379 | 875 | 158 | 143 | 301 | 1,176 | ||
| Number of cases removed from Registers during the year by reason inter alia of :— | ||||||||
| 1. Withdrawal of notification | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 2. Recovery from the disease | 9 | 7 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 27 | |
| 3. Death | 48 | 40 | 88 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 95 | |