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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
Hackney 1915
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1915
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The following is a statement in tabular form of the relative
number and percentage of insured and non-insured of primary
cases of tuberculosis notified during 1915:—
Tuberculosis, 1915.
| Sex. | Insured Cases. | Non-Insured Cases. | Percentage Insured. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | |
| Male | 190 | 24 | 112 | 63 | 62% | 27% |
| Female | 87 | 13 | 142 | 50 | 38% | 20% |
| Total | 277 | 37 | 254 | 113 | 52% | 25% |
ACTION TAKEN DURING THE YEAR 1915.
The action taken include disinfection of rooms and the articles
infected by tuberculous patients, inspection of dwellings occupied
by tuberculous persons, and the removal of any condition prejudicial
to health, instruction of patients in measures to prevent the spread
of the disease, and the gratuitous supply of sputum flasks, the
number of these supplied during the year being 94.
TREATMENT—TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARIES.
The Council's tuberculosis dispensary in connection with the
Metropolitan Hospital was opened for the examination and treatment
of persons suffering from tuberculosis, on July 28th, 1915.
From that time to the end of the year it has been regularly opened
on the following days of the week, viz., Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, and Friday mornings, from 10.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.,
and on Tuesday and Friday evenings, from 6 to 7.30 p.m.