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 Woolwich]
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TABLE No. 71.
Hospitals. | Sanatoria. | Poor Law Institns. | Training Colonies. | |
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These numbers refer to 371 patients and the monthly admissions from January to December were as follows :—
January | 27 | July | 42 |
February | 33 | August | 55 |
March | 42 | September | 34 |
April | 52 | October | 30 |
May | 56 | November | 42 |
June | 32 | December | 34 |
It has become evident that there is a good deal of misunderstanding
as to the place which training colonies and
village settlements occupy in the institutional scheme. It
must be realised that village settlements offer no solution of
the whole problem of employment for tuberculous patients.
The number admitted as colonists to these institutions is
extremely small, usually less than 10 per institution per