Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Tuberculosis Dispensaries—Analysis of Returns, Jan.-Dec., 1927.
Borough and Dispensary. | On Dispensary Register, 1-1-27. | Transferred during 1927 from other areas and lost sight of cases returned | Examined for first time during 1927. (à) New cases excluding contacts. (á) Contacts (printed in italics). | Total number (including contacts) under dispensary supervision during 1927. | Removed from Dispensary Register during 1927. | On Dispensary Register on 31-12-27. | Total attendances. | Visits to homes for dispensary purposes by | No. of specimens of sputum examined. | |||||||||||||
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Diagnosis completed. | Under observation. | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | Doubtfully Tuberculous. | Non-Tuberculous. | Total. | (a) Cured. (b) Diagnosis not confirmed or non-T.B. (printed in italics). | (a) Transferred to other areas or lost sight of. (b) Died (printed in italics). | Diagnosis completed. | Under Observation. | ||||||||||||
Adults. | Children. | Adults. | Children. | Adults. | Children. | Adults. | Children. | Adults. | Children. | Tuberculosis Officer. | Dispensary Nurse. | |||||||||||
Battersea | 876 | 243 | 20 | 144 | 6 | 18 | 16 | 67 | 52 | 179 | 115 | 408 | 189 | 1,935 | 18 | 100 | 897 | 82 | 4,180 | 167 | 5,434 | 535 |
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Bermondsey | 1,156 | 42 | 58 | 90 | 8 | 13 | 18 | 161 | 57 | 73 | 62 | 337 | 145 | 2,291 | 72 | 103 | 1,174 | 40 | 4,247 | 209 | 3,873 | 798 |
BethnalGreen | 612 | 10 | 13 | 73 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 34 | 6 | 232 | 124 | 348 | 144 | 1,389 | 10 | 77 | 596 | 9 | 3,676 | 161 | 2,404 | 707 |
Camberweil | 2,003 | 45 | 23 | 224 | 6 | 36 | 37 | 96 | 40 | 338 | 333 | 694 | 416 | 3,884 | 87 | 148 | 1,979 | 33 | 7,587 | 692 | 7,087 | 1,113 |
Chelsea | 192 | 30 | 10 | 47 | 19 | 4 | 197 | 278 | 263 | 282 | 897 | 9 | 21 | 199 | 16 | 3,307 | 46 | 3,131 | 341 | |||
Deptford | 729 | 60 | 27 | 113 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 145 | 87 | 67 | 89 | 333 | 188 | 1,515 | 45 | 181 | 603 | 104 | 3,577 | 177 | 4,512 | 856 |
Finsbury | 432 | 27 | 16 | 60 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 90 | 49 | 159 | 58 | 880 | 6 | 36 | 460 | 13 | 4,107 | 417 | 2,777 | 455 | |
Fulham | 1,117 | 54 | 23 | 129 | 7 | 30 | 25 | 28 | 9 | 320 | 331 | 507 | 312 | 2,552 | 72 | 302 | 902 | 13 | 4,836 | 592 | 5,422 | 885 |
Greenwich | 607 | 21 | 13 | 71 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 11 | 77 | 78 | 170 | 103 | 1,314 | 29 | 647 | 31 | 6,061 | 204 | 3,880 | 150 | |
Hackney | 1,188 | 20 | 41 | 156 | 2 | 16 | 18 | 73 | 20 | 243 | 173 | 488 | 213 | 2,334 | 16 | 190 | 1,128 | 45 | 6,505 | 237 | 4,331 | 1,028 |
Hammersmith | 660 | 26 | 26 | 147 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 17 | 3 | 197 | 127 | 375 | 147 | 1,408 | 25 | 46 | 720 | 24 | 2,631 | 158 | 4,547 | 507 |
Hampstead | 225 | 23 | 24 | 41 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 48 | 38 | 102 | 46 | 495 | 2 | 74 | 204 | 11 | 1,184 | 8 | 1,243 | 271 |
Holborn | 191 | 1 | 8 | 40 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 2 | 13 | 1 | 71 | 10 | 345 | 12 | 45 | 178 | 2 | 874 | 65 | 1,165 | 201 |
Islington | 1,187 | 62 | 68 | 275 | 6 | 17 | 11 | 26 | 10 | 254 | 91 | 572 | 118 | 2,438 | 29 | 136 | 1,275 | 29 | 8,891 | 599 | 6,011 | 973 |
Kensington | 1,222 | 31 | 9 | 90 | 4 | 6 | 19 | 55 | 17 | 136 | 115 | 287 | 155 | 2,141 | 251 | 208 | 846 | 13 | 2,927 | 83 | 2,350 | 499 |
Lambeth | 1,508 | 157 | 35 | 367 | 9 | 42 | 46 | 134 | 34 | 576 | 258 | 1,119 | 347 | 3,686 | 77 | 252 | 1,592 | 111 | 9,735 | 431 | 5,062 | 1,444 |
Lewisham | 851 | 18 | 47 | 146 | 4 | 16 | 16 | 13 | 9 | 141 | 125 | 316 | 154 | 1,573 | 9 | 61 | 901 | 5 | 2,889 | 306 | 2,189 | 164 |
Paddington | 983 | 45 | 56 | 131 | 1 | 17 | 89 | 164 | 167 | 208 | 211 | 520 | 468 | 2,532 | 3 | 148 | 1,102 | 50 | 11,745 | 611 | 4,708 | 839 |
Poplar* | 958 | 52 | 6 | 110 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 27 | 34 | 396 | 388 | 540 | 440 | 2,293 | 82 | 63 | 943 | 49 | 5,622 | 189 | 7,997 | 2,173 |
St. Marylebone | 228 | 106 | 14 | 73 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 76 | 52 | 35 | 16 | 186 | 76 | 755 | 3 | 24 | 285 | 101 | 3,449 | 170 | 1,325 | 240 |
St. Pancras | 734 | 73 | 59 | 179 | 3 | 7 | 18 | 107 | 25 | 117 | 139 | 410 | 185 | 1,659 | 7 | 212 | 758 | 127 | 5,094 | 133 | 5,279 | 917 |
Shoreditch | 567 | 34 | 29 | 71 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 135 | 95 | 222 | 105 | 1,280 | 5 | 98 | 558 | 29 | 5,809 | 377 | 2,744 | 706 |
Southwark | 588 | 41 | 10 | 164 | 12 | 12 | 45 | 28 | 15 | 160 | 60 | 364 | 132 | 1,500 | 42 | 142 | 580 | 51 | 5,543 | 45 | 3,429 | 527 |
Stepney | 1,552 | 85 | 46 | 248 | 29 | 9 | 28 | 84 | 35 | 280 | 193 | 621 | 285 | 3,650 | 75 | 109 | 1,691 | 80 | 8,376 | 280 | 5,266 | 1,833 |
Stoke Newington | 221 | 5 | 9 | 44 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 22 | 7 | 22 | 5 | 90 | 17 | 433 | 2 | 38 | 221 | 14 | 1,110 | 49 | 732 | 271 |
Wandsworth | 1,262 | 73 | 45 | 206 | 2 | 16 | 15 | 60 | 18 | 215 | 451 | 497 | 486 | 2,884 | 165 | 76 | 1,192 | 22 | 5,720 | 386 | 5,067 | 2,087 |
Westminster | 711 | 1 | 7 | 140 | 5 | 15 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 61 | 52 | 221 | 76 | 1,149 | 2 | 128 | 679 | 2 | 2,627 | 149 | 4,875 | 172 |
Woolwich* | 1,790 | 19 | 7 | 193 | 15 | 19 | 21 | 41 | 19 | 401 | 381 | 654 | 436 | 3,194 | 534 | 198 | 1,155 | 19 | 5,014 | 523 | 4,802 | 598 |
Totals | 24,353 | 1,404 | 749 | 3,772 | 161 | 356 | 508 | 1,535 | 746 | 5,211 | 4,378 | 10,874 | 5,793 | 52,406 | 1,660 | 3,245 | 23,465 | 1,125 | 137,323 | 7,464 | 111,642 | 21,290 |
* In the case of Poplar and Woolwich the numbers on the dispensary register on 1st January, 1927, are revised figures, and in the case of Poplar the apportionment between "Diagnosis
completed " and "Under observation" is approximate.