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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
Carshalton 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton]
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Tuberculosis.
The new cases admitted to the tuberculosis register during the
year numbered 106 classified as follows :
Males. Females.
Pulmonary 49 Pulmonary 47
Non-pulmonary 8 Non-pulmonary 2
Of the total additions 72 were primary notifications, 30 were
transferred from other districts, and 4 came to notice in other ways.
For the same period 83 names were removed from the register for
the following reasons:
Recovered 11
Deaths 31
Otherwise (including removals) 41
After allowing for the additions and deductions, the state of the
register at the 31st December, 1946, was as shown in the following
table :
TUBERCULOSIS—WARD DISTRIBUTION.
Cases on Register at 31st December, 1040.
| Ward. | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | Total | Incidence per 1,000 population. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males. | Females. | Males. | Females. | |||
| St. Ilelie r North | 56 | 66 | 14 | 8 | 144 | 17.0 |
| St. llelier South | 44 | 43 | 12 | 17 | 116 | 16.6 |
| St. Helier West | 51 | 33 | 13 | 16 | 113 | 14.0 |
| North-East | 40 | 40 | 10 | 8 | 98 | 10.6 |
| North-West | 36 | 25 | 6 | 6 | 73 | 10.1 |
| Central | 25 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 53 | 8.8 |
| South-East | 21 | 19 | 6 | 8 | 54 | 7.4 |
| South-West | 27 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 47 | 7.1 |
| Totals | 300 | 260 | 72 | 66 | 698 | 11.7 |
| 560 | 138 | |||||
The total of 698 is 23 more than at the corresponding date twelve
months earlier.
The Surrey County Council is responsible for the anti-tuberculosis
scheme in the area. The number of patients from Carshalton who
received institutional treatment under the County scheme during the
year was as follows :
At Surrey County Sanatorium, Milford 29
At other tuberculosis institutions 128
157
70