Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report for the year 1922 of the Medical Officer of Health
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At the present time 80 discharged soldiers suffering with tuberculosis
are resident in Hampstead. The number of cases of tuberculosis
known to the Department at the end of 1 922 totals 937—691 pu'monary
and 246 non-pulmonary.
Occupations. The following is an analysis of the occupations of the new cases notified as tuberculous during 1922:—
Occupation. | Pulmonary Cases. | Non- Pulmonary Cases. | Occupation. | Fulmonary Cases. | Non-Pulmonary Cases. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Actors | 1 | – | Milliners | 1 | – |
Army pensioners | 5 | – | Office porters | 2 | – |
Auctioneers | 1 | – | Pattern Card Mounters | 1 | – |
Barmaids | 1 | – | |||
Bus Drivers | 2 | – | Photographers | 1 | – |
Clerks | 14 | 2 | Plumbers | 1 | – |
Company Directors | 1 | – | Police Constables | 1 | – |
Compositors | 2 | – | Postmen | 1 | – |
Dentists | 1 | – | Restaurant workers | – | 1 |
Domestic Servants | 12 | 2 | Secretaries | 1 | – |
Dressmakers | 2 | 1 | School children | 3 | 10 |
Ex-Officers | 1 | – | Shop Assistants | 4 | 1 |
Hairdressers | 2 | – | Sign writers | 1 | – |
Housewives | 6 | 2 | Students | 3 | 1 |
Labourers | 1 | – | Tailors | – | 1 |
Laundresses | 1 | – | Teachers | 5 | – |
Librarians | – | 1 | Trained Nurses | 1 | – |
Managers | 2 | – | Valets | 1 | – |
Mechanics | 4 | 1 | No occupation | 6 | 10 |
Merchants | 3 | – | No Information | 4 | – |
Metal workers | 1 | 1 | |||
Milk Roundsmen | 1 | – | 101 | 34 |
Removal of Cases. Of the newly notified cases in 1922, 85 were removed:—
Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | |
---|---|---|
To Sanatoria | 31 | 2 |
To Hospitals | 25 | 7 |
To Infirmaries | 12 | 2 |
To Nursing or other Homes | 4 | 2 |
72 | 13 |
The following cases, notified prior to 1922, were also removed.
Pulmonary. | Non -Pulmonary. | |
---|---|---|
To Sanatoria | 10 | 1 |
To Hospitals | 9 | 3 |
To Infirmaries | 10 | 2 |
To Nursing or other Homes | 3 | – |
32 | 6 |