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44 Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1930.
During the year 45 persons, not previously notified, were
certified as having died of Tuberculosis. The ratio of unnotified
Tuberculosis deaths to total Tuberculosis deaths is therefore
45 to 308.
Of the 45 unnotified deaths, 30 were certified from Institutions,
three by private doctors, while in 12 cases Tuberculosis
was discovered post mortem. In all cases the certifying doctor
was asked for an explanation, but in no case was it considered
necessary to take proceedings for wilful neglect or refusal to
notify.
69 persons died within one month after notification, 96
within three months, and 122 within six months.
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Patients classified as " recovered " are those who have
shown no evidence of active disease for at least five years.
This " Notification Register " contains particulars of all
persons who have been notified to the Medical Officer of Health
as suffering from Tuberculosis. It should be distinguished
from the " Dispensary Register "—referred to in Table XXVII.—
which is a list containing the names of all persons attending
at, or seen in connection with, the Dispensary for diagnosis or
treatment.
Table XXIV. gives a summary of all the cases of Tuberculosis
notified since 1904, which is the first complete year
after a voluntary system of notification was instituted in the
Borough.
The figures for the first 25 years, from 1904-1928 are given
in quinquennial periods, and those for each of the years 19291930
are shown separately. The number of cases reported, the
number who died, recovered or removed, and the number remaining
on the register at the end of each period are shown in
this Table, for both pulmonary and non-pulmonary forms of
the disease.