Sixty-fifth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington page 37

Islington 1920

Sixty-fifth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington

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Table: Disinfection of Houses and Rooms after Phthisis. The following statement gives the particulars for the year;—

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Disinfection of Houses and Rooms after Phthisis. The following statement gives the particulars for the year;—

2nd „	71	100
3rd „	53	75
4th „	57	72
Total	286	386

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TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARIES.
The work of the Tuberculosis Dispensaries has been very satisfactorily
performed, and during the year 1,415 persons were examined by the Tuberculosis
Officers, and the patients made 10,816 attendances.
At the Northern Dispensary there were 655 new cases, and at the
Southern 760, while the attendances at the former were 3,921 and at the
latter 6,895. The examination of contacts with tuberculous cases showed
that 43 were suffering from tuberculosis, 44 were suspect, and 386 were not
suffering. The nurses of the Northern Dispensary paid 1,677 visits, and those
of the Southern 1,788, to the homes of the patients, while the Tuberculosis
Oifficer of the Northern Dispensary made 226 visits and of the Southern 214
vsits to the patients' homes for the purpose of examining them.
The number of persons in attendance at them in each year since their
institution is as follows:—

Table: TUBERCULOSIS.

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TUBERCULOSIS.

	1916.		1917.		1918.		1919.		1920.
	North Dispy.	South Dispy.	North Dispy.	South Dispy.	North Dispy.	South Dispy.	North Dispy.	South Dispy.	North Dispy.	South Dispy.
New Cases	—	312	628	717	635	872	585	756	655	760
Actual No. of Attendances	—	944	2279	4291	3798	6511	4057	6782	3921	6895
Totals	—	1256	2907	5008	4433	7383	4642	7538	4576	7655

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	Cases.	Attendances.
1916	312	944
1917	1,345	6,570
1918	1,507	10,309
1919	1,341	10,839
1920	1,415	10,816
	5,920	39,478

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Islington 1920

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Table: Disinfection of Houses and Rooms after Phthisis. The following statement gives the particulars for the year;—

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Table: TUBERCULOSIS.

Table: A summary of this table gives the following figures: