Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the vital statistics and sanitary condition of the Borough of Lewisham for the year 1915
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The following is a summary of the work carried out by Miss Hall and Miss Davies, Special Visitors for Tuberculosis, for the year ending 31st December, 1915.
Primary Visits:— To cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 422 |
To cases of other forms of Tuberculosis | 128 |
Subsequent Visits (including those made to cases on admission to or discharge from curative institutions, and after death, with reference to disinfection) | 1883 |
Number of patients found occupying separate room | 344 |
Number of patients sharing room with one other person | 259 |
two other persons | 36 |
three „ „ | 3 |
Number of patients occupying separate beds | 489 |
Patients sharing bed with one other | 264 |
,, ,, ,, two others | 131 |
„ „ „ three others | 42 |
„ ,, ,, four others | 5 |
Total number of contacts to primary cases visited | 2777 |