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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Lambeth 1916
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1916
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Tables I. to V.—continued.
| Central Dispensary. | Branch Dispensary. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Insured. | Not Insured. | Total. | Insured. | Not Insured | Total. | |||||
| Males. | Females. | Males. | Females. | Males. | Females. | Males. | Females. | |||
| TABLE IV. | ||||||||||
| *E—Nature of Treatment— | ||||||||||
| 1. Routine (total cases treated one month and over) including— | 77 | 42 | 99 | 191 | 409 | 85 | 56 | 103 | 141 | 385 |
| 2. Institutional— (a) Sanatoria (including Tuberculosis Hospitals) | 39 | 7 | 11 | 21 | 78 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 33 |
| (b) General Hospitals | – | – | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 22 |
| (c) Poor Law Institutions | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |
| †3. Tuberculin— Remedial | 4 | – | 2 | 4 | 10 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 2 |
| TABLE V. | ||||||||||
| F—Results of Treatment— 1. Routine (Total cases treated one month and over)— (a) Fit for work | 44 | 40 | 90 | 180 | 354 | 63 | 37 | 86 | 116 | 302 |
| Fit for work and remaining so | 19 | 12 | 54 | 85 | 170 | 51 | 33 | 70 | 109 | 263 |
| Not fit for work but becoming fit | 25 | 28 | 36 | 95 | 184 | 12 | 4 | 16 | 7 | 39 |
| (b) Unfit for work | 29 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 47 | 20 | 18 | 17 | 25 | 80 |
| Fit for work but not remaining so | 12 | – | 2 | 3 | 17 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 14 | 42 |
| Not fit for work and remaining so | 17 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 30 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 38 |
| (c) Deaths, including— | 4 | 1 | – | 3 | 8 | 2 | 1 | – | – | 3 |
| 2 Institutional (Sanatorium)— (a) Fit for work | 18 | 7 | 7 | 18 | 50 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 33 |
| Fit for work and remaining so | 5 | – | – | 7 | 12 | 3 | 5 | – | 9 | 17 |
| Not fit for work but becoming fit | 13 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 38 | 4 | – | 5 | 7 | 16 |
| (b) Unfit for work | 18 | – | 6 | 9 | 33 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 36 |
| Fit for work but not remaining so | 8 | – | 5 | – | 13 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 16 |
| Not fit for work and remaining so | 10 | – | 1 | 9 | 20 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 20 |
| (c) Deaths | 4 | – | – | 1 | 5 | 2 | – | 2 | – | 4 |
| (3) Tuberculin— (a) Fit for work | 3 | – | 2 | 4 | 9 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 2 |
| Fit for work and remaining so | 1 | – | – | 1 | 2 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| Not fit for work and becoming fit | 2 | – | 2 | 3 | 7 | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| (b) Unfit for work | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Fit for work but not remaining so | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Not fit for work and remaining so | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| (c) Deaths | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
* 190 visits (insured persons 119, uninsured persons 71) were paid to patients' own homes by the assistant Tuberculosis
Medical Officer, and 808 visits (insured persons 328, non-insured persons 480) by the Dispensary Nurse, in connection
with the Council's Central Tuberculosis Dispensary. The Tuberculosis Medical Officer connected with the Council's Branch
Tuberculosis Dispensary at St. Thomas' Hospital does not visit at the patients' own homes.
† Other special treatments, e.g., I.K. (Immune Substances) therapy, pneumosan, succus allii or garlic juice (allyl
sulphide), X-ray and mercury vapour light, induction of artificial pneumothorax, intravenous colloidal copper, nascent or
intensive iodine, &c, are dealt within a short summary (abstracted from reports of the Clinical Tuberculosis Medical Officers) at
the end of the Tables (vide pp. 28-29).