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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
Lambeth 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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Total Attendances and Particulars of New Patients.
| Total Attendances. | Lengths of Attendances. | Results of Diagnosis. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suspected | |||||||
| Tuberculous. | Tuberculous. | Total. | |||||
| (a) New Patients | 1032 | (1) One month and over | 607 | (1) Ordinary Patients | 608 | 191 | 799 |
| (b) Old Patients | 4573 | (2) Under one month‡ | 425 | (2) "Contacts " | 20 | 213 | 233 |
| Total | 5605 | Total | 1032 | Total | 628 | 404 | 1032 |
100
N.B.— Of the 628 patients classified as tuberculous, 596 were pulmonary, and 22 non-pulmonary cases (tub. med. glands).
These numbers are exclusive of the ordinary surgical tuberculosis patients who are admitted for treatment direct
into the surgical wards of the Hospital and not through the Tuberculosis Department.
ADDENDUM.*
Table
Shewing total patients dealt with at St. Thomas's Hospital Tuberculosis Out-Patients' Department
(including the Lambeth Branch Dispensary), under the care of Dr. R. C. Wingfield, during the year 1913.†