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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
Islington 1918
Sixty-third annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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1918]
TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARIES.
The work of the Tuberculosis Dispensaries has been very satisfactorily
performed, and during the year 1,507 persons were examined by the Tuberculosis
Officers, and the patients made 10,309 attendances.
At the Northern Dispensary there were 635 new cases, and at the
Southern 872, while the attendances at the former were 3,798 and at the
latter 6,511. The examination of contacts with tuberculous cases showed
that 45 were suffering from tuberculosis, 58 were suspect, and 297 were not
suffering. The nurses of the Northern Dispensary paid 1,540 visits, and those
of the Southern 1,272, to the homes of the patients, while the Tuberculosis
Officer of the Northern Dispensary made 131 visits and of the Southern 174
visits to the patients' homes for the purpose of examining their patients.
The full particulars for each month of the year are set out in the tabular
statement which is as follows:—