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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
Bethnal Green 1927
Report on the health of the Borough of Bethnal Green during the year 1927
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Details of Gases removed from Tuberculosis Register during the year 1927.
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males | Females | Males | Females | ||
| Deaths | 79 | 38 | 4 | 4 | 125 |
| Patients removed from Borough | 32 | 29 | 7 | 8 | 76 |
| Cases removed from Register as ''Cured" | 4 | – | - | 1 | 5 |
| "Untraceable" | 10 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 23 |
| "Diagnosis not confirmed" | 6 | 7 | 1 | – | 14 |
| Total cases removed from Register | 131 | 82 | 14 | 16 | 243 |
WORK OF TUBERCULOSIS HEALTH VISITORS.
The Tuberculosis Health Visitors paid 4,807 visits
to cases, the second Tuberculosis Health Visitor
having taking up her duties in March.
The visits of the Tuberculosis Health Visitors have
as their principal objects:
1. To ensure the safe collection and destruction of infective
material.
2. To secure such isolation by separate beds, etc., as 'may
be possible.
3 To encourage contacts to be examined.
4. To report any sanitary defects.
5. To investigate economic circumstances with a view to
alleviation through such channels as are available.
This formal outline of their work does not,
however, adequately convey its variety and complexity,
affecting as it does, so many personal and domestic
matters.
TUBERCULOSIS SUB-COMMITTEE.
The Tuberculosis Sub-Committee of the Public
Health Committee has functioned during the year as
the local care committee, dealing with such matters
as grants of extra nourishment, assessments for sanitorium
treatment on behalf of the London County
Council, provision of bedsteads and bedding on loan
to necessitous patients, etc.