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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

Lewisham 1915

Annual report on the vital statistics and sanitary condition of the Borough of Lewisham for the year 1915

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Table: 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.

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 Tuberculosis422
To cases of other forms of Tuberculosis128
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 room344
Number of patients sharing room with one other person259
two other persons36
three „ „3
Number of patients occupying separate beds489
Patients sharing bed with one other264
,, ,, ,, two others131
„ „ „ three others42
„ ,, ,, four others5
Total number of contacts to primary cases visited2777