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 health, sanitary condition, &c., of the Borough for the year1918
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Age Period. | Non-Pulmonary. | Pulmonary Tuberculosis. | Total. | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Glands. | Joints and Bones. | Abdominal. | Others. | Total Non-Pulmonary. | |||
Under I year | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
I and under 2 years | 2 | 1 | ... | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
9 | 3 | 1 | ... | 13 | .... | 13 | |
13 | 1 | 22 | 3 | 45 | |||
9 | 1 | 16 | 21 | 37 | |||
15 and under 20 years | 3 | 7 | 36 | 43 | |||
1 | ... | 1 | 1 | 3 | 55 | 58 | |
3 | 1 | ... | 6 | 158 | |||
1 | ... | 2 | 3 | ||||
^5 and under 65 years | ... | ... | 72 | ||||
••• | ... | ... | 5 | 5 | |||
Totals | 5 | 7 | 73 | 493 |
Disposal of Tuberculous Cases, 1918, at End of Year.
Under treatment at Dispensaries | 244 |
„ in Sanatoria | 52 |
„ at Hospitals | 24 |
„ in Poor Law Infirmaries | |
„ by Medical Practitioners | 102 |
Ceased attending through lack of interest | 1 |
Left the Borough | 26 |
Died | 39 |
Sent by Army Medical Boards and found to be tuberculous | 70 |
Total | 566 |