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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
Deptford 1913
Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
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General Tubercular Diseases. In the following table will be seen the number of cases notified during each of the four quarters and the ages and sex of the patients.
| wards | quarters. | year. | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March. | June. | Sept. | Dec. | |||||||||||||||
| M. | f. | M. | f. | M. | f. | M. | f. | M. | f. | Total, | ||||||||
| East | 6 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 21 | 37 | |||||||
| Noith | 6 | 7 | 4 | 3 | — | 1 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 29 | |||||||
| North-West | 6 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 15 | 32 | |||||||
| South | - | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | ||||||||
| South-East | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 22 | |||||||
| South-West | 4 | 5 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 5 | 5 | 11 | 16 | ||||||||
| Total | 23 | 29 | 17 | 19 | 10 | 12 | 11 | 21 | 61 | 81 | 142 | |||||||
| ages of patients notified. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Und er 1 | 1-5 | 5-15 | 15-25 | 25-45 | 45-65 | 65 & upwards. | All Ages. | |||||||||||
| 6 | 21 | 56 | 24 | 26 | 8 | l | 142 | |||||||||||
Tuberculosis.
In the past our attention has been particularly devoted to Pulmonary
Tuberculosis instead of to Tuberculosis in general. The reason for
this may have been that Phthisis caused more deaths than all the other
forms put together. Again the Tuberculosis Regulations, 1911, only
required the notification of the Pulmonary variety, but the Regulations
of 1912 included every variety of Tuberculosis, so that Tuberculosis
statistics in the future will be far more valuable than they have been
hitherto. These regulations came into operation on February 1st, 1913.
In 1911 I gave a full account of the aims and objects of a Municipal
Dispensary for the prevention of Tuberculosis. In 1912 our Dispensary
became an actual working part of our public health machinery and
took its place as a unit in the state campaign against Tuberculosis. It
will be advisable to consider now what will be the outcome of this
campaign in the light of modern investigations, which subject was
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