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The District Inspectors paid 1,339 visits and revisits to the
homes of patients. It should be stated that some of those visits
related to cases notified in previous years.
Women and children patients are visited by the female
inspectorial staff, and during the year 1634 visits and revisits
were paid to the homes of these patients.
The number of women known to be suffering from Tuberculosis
(all forms) at the end of 1913, was 323, classified as
follows :—
Tuberculosis of the lungs (Phthisis) 303
Tuberculosis of the glands 2
Tuberculosis of the limb 13
Tuberculosis of the skin 5
Of these 323 women Tuberculosis patients, 162 were married
women and 151 unmarried.
There were 51 deaths of women patients during the year
(35 married, 14 single). Forty-nine of these deaths were due
to Phthisis.
It is evident from the result of the statistics so far rendered
available owing to the compulsory notification of Tuberculosis
that there is a very widespread distribution of the disease amongst
children. Thus in Battersea the number of children known to be
suffering from the disease (all forms) is 319, classified as
follows :—
Tuberculosis of the lungs (Phthisis) 215
Tuberculosis of the spine 12
Tuberculosis of the limb 39
Tuberculosis of the abdomen 4
Tuberculosis of the glands 48
Tuberculosis of the skin 1
Two hundred and seventy-two of these children are of school
age, while 47 are under 5 years of age, of whom 13 are attending
school.
Thirty-eight deaths from Tuberculosis occurred amongst
children during the year, 18 of them being due to Tuberculosis of
the lungs (Consumption). Four of the deaths from Consumption
occurred amongst children under 5 years of age. In two of these
cases, the family history showed that the father was suffering
from Consumption; in another, the brother was found to be in
an advanced stage of the disease.