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Wandsworth 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1929.
The districts of the Borough in which these 1,865 persons
resided, together with the authorities who recommended them
to attend, are given in Table XXVII.
TABLE XXV.
| 1904 to 1928 in 5 year periods. | 1929 | Totals. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1904— 1908 | 1909— 1913 | 1914— 1918 | 1919— 1923 | 1924— 1928 | |||
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis:— | |||||||
| Cases reported | 432 | 2830 | 2336 | 2769 | 2630 | 586 | 11583 |
| Died | 230 | 1091 | 1386 | 1030 | 1298 | 284 | 5319 |
| Recovered | 23 | 76 | 10 | 49 | 109 | 25 | 292 |
| Removed or untraced | 159 | 724 | 831 | 835 | 1525 | 137 | 4211 |
| Remaining on Register | 20 | 959 | 1068 | 1923 | 1621 | 1761 | 1761 |
| Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis:— | |||||||
| Cases reported | Not Notifiable. | 323 | 791 | 745 | 695 | 104 | 2658 |
| Died | 46 | 382 | 198 | 208 | 25 | 859 | |
| Recovered | — | 41 | 46 | 91 | 17 | 195 | |
| Removed or untraced | 9 | 116 | 319 | 493 | 46 | 983 | |
| Remaining on register | 268 | 520 | 702 | 605 | 621 | 621 | |
| Total on Notification register at end of each period | 20 | 1227 | 1688 | 2625 | 2226 | 2387 | 2387 |
Contacts.—Of the 1,811 new cases examined, 451 were
contacts. 13 of these were found to be suffering from Tuberculosis.
Dispensary Register.—Table XXVIII. shows the number
of cases remaining on the Dispensary Register at the end of
the year compared with the number at the end of the previous
year.
TABLE XXVIII.
Tuberculosis
Remaining
31st
Dec., 1928
New Cases
Removed
from
Register
Remaining
on Register
31st Dec.,
1929
Pulmonary
999
326
215
1110
Non-Pulmonary
267
39
37
269
Suspected cases
47
230
255
22
Totals
1,313
595
507
1,401