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Wandsworth 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Tuberculosis Dispensaries.
The districts of the Borough in which these 1,477 persons
resided, together with the authorities who recommended them
to attend, are given in Table XXVI.
TABLE XXVI.
Recommended to
attend Dispensary by
Clapham.
Putney.
Balham.
Streatham.
Tooting.
Wandsworth.
Totals.
Public Health Department
52
35
71
47
72
130
407
Private Practitioners
60
44
100
164
109
169
546
Charitable Societies
8
10
15
5
19
23
80
Other Dispensaries
24
16
9
10
13
38
110
L.C.C. Schools
2
6
1
2
8
12
31
Ministry of Pensions
—
1
—
1
—
—
2
Existing Dispensary
Patients
2
1
—
—
2
11
16
Other Sources
21
45
—
26
67
126
285
Totals
169
158
196
155
290
509
1,477
Contacts.—Of the 1,477 new cases examined, 372 were
contacts. Three of these were found to be suffering from Tuberculosis.
Dispensary Register.—Table XXVII. 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 XXVII.
Tuberculosis
Remaining
31st
Dec., 1931
New Cases
Removed
from
Register
Remaining
on Register
31st Dec.,
1932
Pulmonary
1115
378
373
1120
Non-Pulmonary
282
61
72
271
Suspected cases
37
316
223
130
Totals
1434
755
678
1521