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records were in possession of the Dispensary at the end of 1937,
arranged according to the years in which the patients first came
under public medical treatment for pulmonary and non-pulmonary
tuberculosis.
The Tuberculosis Care Committee.
This Committee, the constitution of which is set out on page 2,
met fortnightly throughout the year at the Dispensary.
The following is a summary of the work carried out by the
Committee during 1937 :—
Battersea Borough Council—extra nourishment, 127 ;
dentures, 4 ; bed and bedding, 2 133
Public Assistance Committee—financial assistance, 42 ;
clothing, 3 ; dentures, 3 ; other assistance, 1 49
Charity Organisation Society—financial assistance, 2 ;
clothing, 1 ; other assistance, 2 5
British Legion—financial assistance, 4 ; clothing 5 9
Other Agencies—assistance, 5 5
Training and Employment—suitable agencies, 2 2
Non-Dispensary Cases.
All the Tuberculosis visiting for the Borough is undertaken
by the Dispensary staff. Of the 829 patients on the tuberculosis
register at 31st December 120 were not on the dispensary register,
i.e.. 14.5 percent, of the total notified cases.
Visits to the number of 287 were paid to these patients during
1937 by the Dispensary nurses.
DEATHS FROM ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The principal zymotic diseases are small-pox, measles, scarlet
fever, diphtheria (including membranous croup), whooping-cough,
enteric fever and diarrhoea.
The deaths from these causes in 1937 numbered 58, as compared
with 69 in 1936, a decrease of 16 per cent. There was a
corresponding decrease in the zymotic death-rate from 0.474 in
1936 to 0.404 in 1937.