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Bacteriological examination of sputa from 287 cases was made
during the same period. In 44 of these examinations the specific
organism of the disease was found ; in 243 the results were negative.
The number of deaths from tuberculous disease in Hackney
during 1918 was 371. These deaths are classified as follows:—
Tuberculous phthisis 292
Phthisis 15
General tuberculosis 8
Tuberculous meningitis 32
„ peritonitis 7
Tabes mesenterica 2
Tubercle of other organs 15
371
This number of deaths gives an annual mortality of 1.8 per
1,000 living.
ACTION TAKEN DURING THE YEAR 1918.
The action taken includes 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 82.
During the year 2,617 visits were made by the Tuberculosis
Health Visitors to patients, including 149 visits to discharged
soldiers and sailors.
TREATMENT—TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARIES.
A.—Dispensary at Victoria Park Hospital.—During the year
1918 there were 1,241 new patients examined at the Dispensary,
584 males and 657 females. Of the total 401 were insured and 840