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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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86 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Table LVI. gives the site of the lesion in the 569 cases found
to be tuberculous.

Table: TABLE LVI.SITE OF LESION IN TUBERCULOUS CASES.

TABLE LVI.

SITE OF LESION IN TUBERCULOUS CASES.

Age Period.Non-Pulmonary.Pulmonary Tuberculosis.Total.
Glands.Joints and Bones.Abdominal.Others.Total Non-Pulmonary.
Under I year.........11...1
1 and under 2 years2......I3...3
2 and under 5 years21......325
5 and under 10 years17211211435
10 and under 15 years421181725
15 and under 20 years22...154853
20 and under 25 years22......47781
25 and under 35 years14...38157165
35 and under 45 years1......12116118
45 and under 65 years1.........17778
65 years and upwards...............55
Totals32132956513569

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Discharged Soldiers.
' Table LVII. shows the number of discharged soldiers examined,
the number found to be suffering from tuberculosis, and the total
attendances they made. Most of these men were sent up by the
local War Pensions Committees or the London Insurance Committee
for examination and report. A few came direct from the
Medical Boards of the Ministry of Pensions.