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Hackney 1917
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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GLANDERS AND FARCY ORDER, 1907.
No notification of this disease was received during 1917.
DISEASE OF ANIMALS ACT.—ANTHRAX ORDER OF 1910.
No notification of anthrax in animals in the Borough was
received during 1917.
HOUSING, TOWN PLANNING, &c., ACT, 1909.
No action under the above was taken during 1917.
PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS, 1912.
Under these regulations, I received 1,043 notifications of
cases of pulmonary tuberculosis during the year 1917 of which
334 were duplicates; also 204 non-pulmonary notifications of
which 43 were duplicates. The following tables A and B give the
age and sex distribution of the notified cases.