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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
Hackney 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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Supplemental Return.
New cases of Tuberculosis coming- to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Healthduring the same period, otherwise than by notification on Form A or Form B, under the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1912.
| Source of Information. | No. of Cases. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | ||
| Death Returns | from local Registrars | 7 | 5 |
| from Registrar General | 7 | 4 | |
| Posthumous Notifications | 11 | 3 | |
| " Transfers " from other areas (other than transferable deaths) | 34 | 6 | |
| Forms C and D (in respect of cases not previously known to the M.O.H.) | 4 | — | |
| Other Sources | — | — | |
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1924.
The following is a summary of the quarterly returns under these regulations during the year:—
| Pulmonary. | Non-pulmonary. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male. | Female. | Male. | Female. | |
| Number of cases on Register at 1st January, 1929 | 783 | 593 | 342 | 313 |
| Number of cases notified under Regulations (1912) during the year and added to the Register | 151 | 133 | 42 | 37 |
| Number of cases coming to the notice of Medical Officer of Health other than by notification under the Regulations and added to the Register | 38 | 25 | 8 | 10 |
| Total number of cases added to the Register | 189 | 158 | 50 | 47 |
| Number of cases removed from the Register during the year | 187 | 132 | 36 | 48 |
| Total number of cases on Register at 31st December 1929 | 785 | 619 | 356 | 312 |
| - | 1404 | 668 | ||