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Southwark 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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Disinfection wan carried out as follows :—
TABLE 47.
TUBERCULOSIS.
| Age Periods. | New Cases.* | Deaths. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | |
| 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| 1 | — | 12 | — | 1 |
| 5 | 16 | 26 | 3 | 12 |
| 15 | 71 | 13 | 26 | 6 |
| 25 | 62 | 5 | 29 | — |
| 35 | 39 | 3 | 30 | 1 |
| 45 | 46 | 4 | 39 | — |
| 55 | 38 | — | 30 | — |
| 65 and upwards.. | 12 | 3 | 15 | 1 |
| Total | 285 | 67 | 172 | 21 |
PUBLIC HEALTH (PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS)
REGULATIONS 1925.
It was unnecessary to take action under these Regulations during
the year.
WORK OF THE TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARY.
The following report has been received from Dr. Crowe, your,
Clinical Tuberculosis Officer :—
The work of the Dispensary was carried out as usual during the
year, the sessions being held as follows :
Tuesday Tuesday
Thursday 9.30—12. 6—8 p.m.
Saturday Thursday
The number of new cases examined and the total number of
attendances, etc., at The Dispensary will be found in Table No. 50.
During The year under review the Wednesday morning session for
patients at the Dispensary has been discontinued. Instead, on that
morning domiciliary patients have been visited in their own homes by
the Tuberculosis Officer. 303 such visits have been paid.
Fifty special reports have been sent to the Medical Officer of Health
recommending families, in which there are one or more cases of
Tuberculosis, for preferential housing accommodation on health grounds.
The Handicraft Centre, inaugurated in the early autumn of 193.2,
is still being held weekly at the Dispensary, and articles of a decorative
and useful nature are made by the patients. The class meets each
Wednesday afternoon, the teacher being appointed by the L.C.C. There
is also a Voluntary Organise)'.