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 Southwark, Borough of]
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The number of notified cases and deaths for the last 5 years is as follows:—
Notified. | Deaths. | |
---|---|---|
1927 | 343 | 197 |
1928 | 319 | 194 |
1929 | 339 | 232 |
1930 | 339 | 210 |
1931 | 312 | 208 |
Primary Notifications relate to patients who have previously been formally notified in the area to which
the return relates. Any additional notification of a case which has been previously notified in the area is to be
regarded as duplicate.
Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | Total Cases. | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Males. | Females. | Total. | Males. | Females. | Total. | ||
Number of cases of Tuberculosis remaining at the 31st December, 1931, on the Registers of Notifications kept by the Medical Officer of Health of the Metropolitan Borough | 763 | 478 | 1241 | 303 | 233 | 536 | 1777 |
Number of cases removed from the Register(s) during the year by reason inter alia of:— | 178 | 120 | 298 | 31 | 27 | 58 | 356 |
(1) Withdrawal of notification | 49 | 38 | 87 | 14 | 14 | 28 | 115 |
(2) Recovery from the disease | 6 | 11 | 17 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 30 |
(3) Deaths | 123 | 71 | 194 | 13 | 4 | 17 | 211 |