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, January-December, 1933.
Metropolitan borough. | On dispensary register, 1-1-33. | Transferred during 1933 from other areas and cases returned after discharge. | Examined for first time during 1933. (a) New cases excluding contacts. (b) Contacts (printed in italics). | Total number (including contacts) under dispensary supervision during 1933. | Removed from dispensary register during 1933. | On dispensary register 31-12-33. | Total attendances. | Visits to home for dispensary purposes by | No. of specimens of sputum examined. | No. of X-Ray examinations. | |||||||||||||
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Definitely tubercular. | Diagnosis not completed. | Pulmonary. | Non-pulmonary. | Diagnosis not completed. | Non-tuberculous. | Total. | (a) Re-sovered, (b) Non tubercular printed in italics.) | (a) Transferred to other areas or lost sight of (b) Died (printed in italics). | Definitely tubercular | Diagnosis not completed. | |||||||||||||
Tuberculosis officers. | Nurses or health visitors. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Adults. | Children. | Adults. | Children. | Adults. | Children. | Adults. | Children. | Adults. | Children. | ||||||||||||||
Batteraea | 904 | 64 | 32 | 146 | 3 | 18 | 7 | 34 | 31 | 169 | 367 | 141 | 1,697 | 33 | 92 | 883 | 82 | 3,545 | 215 | 4,080 | 138 | ||
Berraondsey | 913 | 16 | 15 | 129 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 19 | 1 | 215 | 81 | 376 | 99 | 2,058 | 59 | 894 | 4,164 | 1,150 | 3,978 | 1,132 | 691 | ||
Bethnal Green | 728 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 216 | 101 | 326 | 129 | 1,431 | 8 | 744 | 15 | 4,133 | 90 | 2,657 | 507 | 227 | ||||||
Camberwell | 1,650 | 51 | 139 | 6 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 123 | 429 | 145 | 3,010 | 8 | 105 | 30 | 5,288 | 614 | 8,669 | 432 | |||||
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Chelsea | 312 | 9 | 35 | 73 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 214 | 125 | 298 | 135 | 920 | 64 | 325 | 3 | 2,197 | 56 | 3,433 | 289 | 361 | |||
Deptford | 583 | 49 | 23 | 2 | 6 | 19 | 6 | 73 | 306 | 87 | 20 | 565 | 31 | 3,131 | 4,091 | 1,013 | 164 | ||||||
Finsbury | 584 | 74 | 7 | 9 | 13 | — | 104 | 39 | 187 | 1,051 | 23 | 536 | 3 | 2,400 | 279 | 2,537 | 408 | ||||||
Fulham | 858 | 9 | 59 | 165 | 6 | 13 | 9 | — | — | 258 | 241 | 436 | 256 | 1,849 | 51 | 155 | 809 | — | 4,269 | 409 | 3,066 | 169 | |
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Greenwich | *673 | — | 17 | 84 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 145 | 92 | 245 | 107 | 38 | 669 | 14 | 2,529 | 3,020 | 195 | 164 | ||||
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Hackney | 1,331 | 13 | 69 | 174 | 7 | 13 | 1 | 349 | 565 | 2,648 | 152 | 1,317 | 6,784 | 229 | 3,453 | 348 | |||||||
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Hammersmith | 748 | 1 | 52 | 146 | 2 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 187 | 45 | 350 | 54 | 1,547 | 44 | 129 | 713 | 2 | 2,393 | 295 | 4,369 | 479 | 196 |
Hampstead | 231 | 7 | 44 | 67 | 3 | 1 | 73 | 27 | 148 | 32 | 524 | 39 | 67 | 7 | 1,203 | 21 | 1,154 | 83 | 84 | ||||
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Holborn | 219 | 5 | 9 | 34 | — | 4 | 3 | 2 | — | 12 | 52 | 14 | 328 | 4 | 25 | 238 | 2 | 981 | 36 | 1,176 | 140 | 47 | |
Islington | 1,349 | 14 | 99 | 10 | 27 | 25 | 4 | 2 | 306 | 65 | 605 | 2,570 | 65 | 273 | 1,287 | 8 | 7,611 | 391 | 6,733 | 439 | |||
Kensington | 37 | 40 | 133 | 1 | 18 | 14 | 18 | 9 | 154 | 62 | 323 | 86 | 1,725 | 56 | 123 | 742 | 27 | 2,271 | 2,150 | 462 | 40 | ||
Lambeth | 1,548 | 87 | 69 | 8 | 21 | 15 | 42 | 14 | 456 | 81 | 807 | 3,280 | 20 | 163 | 1,605 | 95 | 7,493 | 4,841 | 1,333 | ||||
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981 | 3 | 39 | 137 | 3 | 18 | 12 | 16 | 6 | 117 | 52 | 73 | 1,556 | 55 | 82 | 965 | 2 | 2,675 | 369 | 2,070 | 224 | |||
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Paddington | 1,056 | 10 | 25 | 146 | 4 | 16 | 26 | 8 | 319 | 343 | 489 | 385 | 2,144 | 19 | 109 | 1,075 | 21 | 8,219 | 553 | 5,430 | 384 | ||
Poplar | 854 | 32 | 27 | 7 | 15 | 14 | 6 | 7 | 294 | 483 | 229 | 39 | 81 | 864 | 20 | 420 | 5,640 | 1,119 | |||||
St. Maryle- bone | 521 | 94 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 64 | 43 | 49 | 969 | 8 | 109 | 516 | 14 | 2,949 | 120 | 1,987 | 195 | 40 | |||
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St. Pancras | 751 | 63 | 86 | 187 | 12 | 17 | 18 | 1 | 139 | 56 | 354 | 87 | 1,451 | 25 | 719 | 46 | 3,024 | 81 | 4,287 | 561 | 85 | ||
Shoreditch | 671 | 27 | 59 | 109 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 273 | 189 | 404 | 1,657 | 36 | 56 | 27 | 4,514 | 152 | 3,160 | 1,144 | 182 | ||
Southwark | 697 | 17 | 39 | 154 | 12 | 16 | 17 | 12 | 7 | 104 | 20 | 56 | 1,393 | 74 | 156 | 603 | 24 | 303 | 3,804 | 494 | 74 | ||
Stepney | 1,884 | 89 | 57 | 28 | 45 | 44 | 259 | 121 | 594 | 215 | 3,533 | 258 | 1,776 | 135 | 7,186 | 252 | 5,405 | 877 | |||||
Stoke Newington | 214 | — | 24 | 42 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 77 | 20 | 123 | 23 | 486 | 16 | 38 | 4 | 1,204 | 96 | 1,034 | 325 | 31 | |
Wandsworth | 1,391 | 130 | 94 | 263 | 7 | 20 | 21 | 43 | 1 | 466 | 230 | 792 | 259 | 2,969 | 76 | 184 | 1,347 | 47 | 5,324 | 290 | 3,917 | 1,633 | |
Westminster | 655 | 5 | 12 | 9 | 21 | 25 | — | 65 | 31 | 65 | 1,131 | 3 | 125 | 657 | 2 | 2,165 | 82 | 3,404 | 164 | 60 | |||
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954 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 3 | — | 363 | 504 | 73 | 47 | 892 | 5 | 4,446 | 539 | 4,944 | 461 | 412 | ||||||
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Total | 24,081 | 1,153 | 3,999 | 163 | 397 | 347 | 364 | 174 | 5,825 | 2,941 | 10,585 | 3,625 | 48,604 | 1,014 | 3,173 | 23,530 | 703 | 111109 | 8,445 | 104459 | 18,344 | 6,534 | |
* Figure amended by borough council since completion of return in 1932.