[Report 1961] / School Medical Officer of Health, Exeter.

  • Exeter (England). City Council
Date:
1961
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    were of persons (both elderly women) whose disease had not been notified in life^—they were formally notified after death. Recovery from Tuberculosis. A special review of the cases on the register resulted in the names of 118 respiratory and 28 non-respiratory cases being taken off during the year as recovered. The review is not yet complete. The figures for 1960 were 60 and 12 respectively. Re-Activation. 8 cases of tuberculosis notified in 1961 were in persons whose names had previously been on the register but removed as recover- ed : they are probably examples of re-activation. 5 had originally been non-pulmonary cases : in 3 (glands of neck 2, and wrist 1) re-activation apparently recurred in the same site. In 2 (lupus 1, and elbow 1) the lesion notified in 1961 was respiratory. In one former respiratory case, cleared in 1957, the neck glands were the site involved in 1961. In another the new notification was some 20 years after a childhood tuberculous pleurisy, and the third (a posthumous notification) was a man who had been treated 24 years before as a respiratory case. Transfers. 36 names were added to the register during the year (30 respiratory and 6 non-respiratory) as inward transfers from other areas, while 76 patients (64 respiratory and 12 non-respiratory) were “ transferred out,” many of them as a result of the special review mentioned previously : they included a large number of St. Loyes College trainees who had by now left the City. It should be noted the College accepts only non-infectious cases. Tuberculosis Register. At 31st December, 1961, the number of notified cases still on the register was 672, showing a welcome decline on the figure (831) for the year 1960. The last time the total on the register was below 700 was in 1953 when the total was 650. Respiratory Sputum Positive during 1961 Sputum Negative during 1961 Non- Respiratory Men 286 15 271 42 Women 240 12 228 56 Children 41 — 7 Total : 672