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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 1940

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

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1940.
Table X. classifies the 1,150 new cases under the districts
of the Borough in which they live and shows on whose recommendation
they attended for examination.

Table: TABLE X.

TABLE X.

Recommended to attend Dispensary byClapham.Putney.Balham.Streatham.Tooting.Wandsworth.Total.
The Council's Officers462721374872251
Private Practitioners2032324143102270
Charitable Societies3422153157
Other Dispensaries601328402753221
Existing Patients526481439
Other Sources3620254639146312
Totals170981141701804181150

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Contacts. Of the 1,150 new cases examined, 207 were
contacts. 20 of these were found to be suffering from Tuberculosis.
Dispensary Register. Table XI. 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 XI.

TABLE XI.

Type of Case.On Register end of 1939.New Cases.Removed from Register.On Register Dec. 31st, 1940.
Pulmonary11473203471120
Non-Pulmonary2483831255
Suspected Cases9618320574
Totals14915415831449