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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
West Ham 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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The source of information in respect of these 34 cases is
given in Table III.
Table III.
Tuberculosis. Non-notified cases. Sources of information.
| Source of information as to the above-mentioned cases. | Number of cases. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non-pulmonary. | |
| Death returns: | ||
| (a) from local registrars | 9 | 5 |
| (b) transferable deaths from Registrar General .. | 1 | - |
| Posthumous notifications .. | — | — |
| "Transfers" from other areas (other than transferable deaths) | 13 | 6 |
| Other sources (if any) | — | — |
| Total | 23 | 11 |
| Pulmonary and non-pulmonary | 34 | |
Ward incidence of notified cases (primary notification).
Table IV. gives the distribution in the various wards of the
borough of the 373 cases notified in 1937, according to site affected.
It will be seen that generally the variation of the incidence rate in
different wards was slight. No definite conclusions can be drawn
from the rates shown, but the data are of some importance for
reference purposes.
Age incidence of new cases. In this section a distinction
has hitherto been made between cases formally notified to the
medical officer of health and cases which came to his notice through
other channels. The true incidence of new cases is given by the
sum of these two separate groups of cases, and for comparative
purposes it is more accurate to take this combined figure. Table
V. shows the true incidence of new ca:ses in 1937, distributed
according to the age and sex of the patients, and to the main type
of the disease from which the patients suffered.
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