Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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Details of the notified cases are as follows:-
Age Groups | Primary notifications | Non primary | notifications | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pulmonary | Non pulmonary | Pulmonary | Non pulmonary | |||||
Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | |
0 | - | - | – | – | - | - | - | - |
1 - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
2 - | 6 | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
5 - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
10 - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - |
15 - | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - |
20 - | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | |
25- | 15 | 11 | - | - | 9 | 6 | - | - |
35 - | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | - |
45 - | 5 | 2 | - | - | 7 | 1 | - | - |
55- | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
65 - | 6 | - | 2 | 4 | - | - | 1 | |
75 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
Totals | 57 | 35 | 6 | 11 | 31 | 15 | 2 | 2 |
Primary notifications relate to persons who had not been previously
notified in the area of any authority. The sources of information of the 50
non primary cases were
"Transfers" from other areas 47
Posthumous notification 3
In addition 16 other persons on the Tuberculosis Register were certified
as dying from other causes.
The Department's Tuberculosis Register at 1st January and 31st December showed the following position:
Pulmonary | Non pulmonary | Totals | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | |
On Register at 1st January | 793 | 615 | 80 | 94 | 873 | 709 |
Add | ||||||
Notifications ,. | 57 | 35 | 6 | 11 | 63 | 46 |
Transfers from other areas, etc. | 31 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 33 | 17 |
Returned to Hackney | 13 | 11 | - | - | 13 | 11 |
Deduct: | ||||||
Deaths | 25 | 3 | - | 2 | 25 | 5 |
Left the Borough | 67 | 46 | 7 | 2 | 74 | 48 |
Recovered | 52 | 33 | 4 | 3 | 56 | 36 |
Diagnosis not confirmed | - | 5 | - | - | - | 5 |
From 'Non pulmonary' to 'Pulmonary ! | - | - | - | - | - | |
On Register at 31st December | 750 | 589 | 77 | 100 | 827 | 689 |
MILLFIELDS DISINFECTING STATION
The Council s Disinfecting and Cleansing Station in Millfields Road
provides the following facilities*
SCABIES AND VERMINOUS CONDITIONS.
Treatment of these conditions is carried out in the cleansing section of the Station and the following cases were dealt with:-
Scabies | Head and body lice | Cleansing Baths | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cases | Treatments | Contacts (Preventive treatments; | Cases | Treat ments | Cases | Treatments | |
Children under 5 years | 38 | 45 | 18 | 34 | 34 | 1 | 1 |
Children over 5 years | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||
Adults | 71 | 78 | 4 | 33 | 37 | 7 | 8 |
Totals | 111 | 125 | 22 | 69 | 73 | 8 | 9 |