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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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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 83
Table LIII. gives the number of new cases living in each of the
five sub-districts, and shows on whose recommendation they made
the first appearance. 209 were sent up by private practitioners.

Table: TABLE LIII.Return showing Source of Cases and Sub-Districts.

TABLE LIII.

Return showing Source of Cases and Sub-Districts.

Clapham.Putney.Streatham.Tooting.Wandsworth.Outside Borough.Totals.
Public Health Department8324122111227_567
London Insurance Committee10818921_66
Private Practitioners2484451802209
Charitable Societies1—31910-33
Transfers from other Dispensaries1259510142
London County Council910121236—79
Existing Dispensary Patients411048822278416
War Pensions Committees2311286647—175
Other sources1471433661135
Totals21783298388724121,722

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Table LIV. gives the age grouping of all the patients who
attended for the first time in 1919, showing the number found to
be tuberculous at each age period.
Table LV. gives the same grouping for the contacts only,
and shows that 32 out of 516 contacts were found to be tuberculous,
only seven of these being under the age of 15. All contacts
are examined at the Dispensaries, and there were 167 more than
in 1918.