London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Wandsworth 1919
Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., of the Borough for the year1919
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82 Report of the Medical Officer oj Health.
Of the 18,222 attendances, 11,308 were made by patients seen
in previous years.
Further information on the cases is given in the following
tables :—
Table LI. divides the new cases, by sexes, into insured
and non-insured, tuberculous and non-tuberculous. There is an
increase of only three tubercular cases against 377 non-tubercular.
| Cases. | Tuberculous. | Non-Tuberculous. | Totals. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male. | Female. | Total. | Male. | Female. | Total. | Male. | Female. | Total. | |
| Insured | 260 | 88 | 348 | 115 | 69 | 184 | 375 | 157 | 532 |
| Not Insured | 57 | 164 | 221 | 411 | 558 | 969 | 468 | 722 | 1,190 |
| Totals | 317 | 252 | 569 | 526 | 627 | 1,153 | 843 | 879 | 1,722 |
Table LI I. shows the total attendances divided into the
same sub-headings.
| Cases. | Tuberculous. | Non-Tuberculous. | Totals. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male. | Female. | Total. | Male. | Female. | Total. | Male. | Female. | Total. | |
| Insured | 3,603 | 1,688 | 5.,291 | 375 | 369 | 744 | 3,978 | 2,057 | 6,035 |
| Not Insured | 1,967 | 5,441 | 7,408 | 2,197 | 2,582 | 4,779 | 4,164 | 8,023 | 12,187 |
| Totals | 5,570 | 7,129 | 12,699 | 2,572 | 2,951 | 5,523 | 8,142 | 10,080 | 18,222 |