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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 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Tuberculosis Dispensaries. 49
The districts of the Borough in which these 1,419 persons
resided, together with the authorities who recommended them
to attend, are given in Table XXIII.

Table: TABLE XXIII.

TABLE XXIII.

Recommended to attend Dispensary byClapham.Putney.Balham.Streatham.Tooting.Wandsworth.Totals.
Public Health Department8132354464129385
Private Practitioners5645446373133414
Charitable Societies153710113084187
Other Dispensaries391227292744178
L.C.C. Schools-121318
Ministry of Pensions--6---6
Existing Dispensary Patients-1515214
Other Sources2621191035116227
Totals2171491481592375091,419

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Contacts.—Of the 1,419 new cases examined, 436 were
contacts. 37 of these were found to be suffering from Tuberculosis.
Dispensary Register.—Table XXIV. shows the number
of cases remaining on the Dispensary Register at the end of the
year compared with the number at the end of the previous year.

Table: TABLE XXIV.

TABLE XXIV.

TuberculosisRemaining 31st Dec., 1936New CasesRemoved from RegisterRemaining on Register 31st Dec., 1937
Pulmonary11283453261147
Non-Pulmonary2516153259
Suspected cases1914111149
Totals13985474901455

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