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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
Stepney 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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Tuberculosis There are three Municipal Tuberculosis Dispensaries in the Borough.
Dispensaries Their situation and hours of sessions are as follows:—
18, Great Prescot Street, Whitechapel.
New Patients.
Women and Children Monday and Wednesday, 10-12 noon.
Men Friday, 10-12 noon.
Workers Tuesday, 6-8 p.m.
Attendances of old patients by appointment.
Women and Children Thursday, 2-5 p.m.
Men Friday, 2-3 p.m.
208, High Street, Shadwell.
New Patients.
Women and Children Monday and Wednesday, 10-12 noon.
Men Friday, 10-12 noon.
Workers Tuesday, 6-8 p.m.
Attendances of old patients by appointment.
Women and Children Monday and Thursday, 2-5 p.m.
Men Friday, 2-5 p.m.
35, Stepney Green.
Women and Children Monday and Thursday, 2-5 p.m.
(New and old patients)
Men Friday, 2-5 p.m.
(New and old patients)
Workers Tuesday, 6-8 p.m.
(New and old patients)
New patients by appointment. Daily at 10 a.m.
29 Children were boarded out.
| Condition at the time of the last record made during the year to which the return relates. | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bones and joints | Abdominal | Other Organs | Peripheral Glands | Total | Bones and Joints | Abdominal | Other Organs | Peripheral Glands | Total | Bones and Joints | Abdominal | Other Organs | Peripheral Glands | Total | Bones and Joints | Abdominal | Other Organs | Peripheral Glands | Total | ||||
| (a) Remaining on Dispensary Register on 31st December. | Disease Arrested | Adults | M. | 1 | 1 | - | 4 | 5 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 4 |
| F. | 2 | - | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | - | 1 | 4 | 8 | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | |||
| Children | 4 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 1 | 2 | - | 2 | 5 | |||
| Disease not Arrested | Adults | M. | 1 | - | - | 2 | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
| F. | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | - | 2 | 1 | 5 | - | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | |||
| Children | 6 | - | - | - | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 31 | |||
| Condition not ascertained during the year | 2 | - | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 4 | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | |||
| Total on Dispensary Register at 31st December | 16 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 46 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 25 | 53 | 14 | 7 | 10 | 22 | 53 | 13 | 8 ! 5 | 28 | 54 | ||||
| Transferred to Pulmonary | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| | (b) Not now on Dispensary Register ! and reasons for removal therefrom. | Discharged as Recovered | Adults | M. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| F. | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Children | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Lost sight of, or otherwise removed fromDispensary Register | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 4 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | |||
| Dead | Adults | M. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| F. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Children | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 3 | |||
| Total written off Dispensary Register | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | - | 3 | - | 5 | |||
| Grand Totals of (a) and (b) (excluding those transferred to Pulmonary) | 18 | 6 | 9 | 20 | 53 | 14 | 6 | 11 | 27 | 58 | 15 | 8 1 | 24 | 58 | 15 8 | 8 | 28 | 59 | |||||
The increases in the above figures which call for chief comment are those
referring to the new cases found to be tuberculous, to the number of consultations
and to the number of X-ray examinations.