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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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* The figures are supplied by Dr. Wingfield through the Secretary of the Hospital.
† St. Thomas' Hospital, being a General Hospital, deals with patients coming from all parts, e.g. Lambeth and
other Metropolitan areas and the Provinces.
‡ Including cases sent for opinion only, cases unfit to attend as patients, cases diagnosed as suspected tuberculous
(including non-tuberculous or doubtful) and " contacts."
|| The remaining tuberculous ordinary patients, i.e., 22, were non-pulmonary cases, making up the total of 608,
§ 15 cases were found to be unsuitable for tuberculin treatment and are not included.
ADDENDUM—
| Sources of Cases. | Nature and Results of Treatment | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Medical Men | 175 | Clinical Classification of Pulmonary Tuberculosis cases | Routine (all cases) | Institutional (Sanat'rium) | Previous Institutional 8 (Sanat'rium) | Tuberculin. | ||
| 2. Charitable Societies | 30 | |||||||
| 3. Out-patients' Departments (St. Thomas' Hospital) | 491 | Inman. | (a) Fit for work | 443 | 73 | 88 | 46 | |
| Fit for work and remaining so | 395 | 46 | 88 | 36 | ||||
| Not fit for work but becoming fit | 48 | 27 | - | 10 | ||||
| 4. Others (Public Health Department, private, recommendations of patients, &c.) | 103 | Stage I. | 100 | (b) Unfit for work | 142 | 18 | 34 | 9 |
| Stage II. | 93 | Fit for work but not remaining so | 37 | 8 | 2 | 4 | ||
| Stage III. | 393 | Not fit for work and remaining so | 105 | 10 | 32 | 5 | ||
| 5. "Contacts" | 233 | (c) Deaths | 22 | 4 | 3 | - | ||
| 586 | Total | 607 | 95 | 125 | 55 § | |||