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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

Wandsworth 1919

Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., of the Borough for the year1919

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Notification o! Tuberculous Diseases.
The total number of cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis notified
during 1919 was 788 (140 were from Clapham, 53 from Putney,
223 from Streatham, 122 from Tooting, and 250 from Wandsworth).
In Table XLV. is shown the total number of cases notified
since 1909, the number of deaths in each year since that date, the
total deaths, the number removed from the district as far as could
be ascertained, the number who were stated to have recovered,
and the total number of cases still on the Register.

Table: TABLE XLV.

TABLE XLV.

Year.Cases Reported.Deaths.Removed.Recovered.Cases on Register.
19091910191119121913191419151916191719181919Total.
1909389109481826964511...2271161531
1910289...7737287433.........159100624
1911514......1138227228621622781751446
1912855.........22510548311387844524158111
1913783.........18077412595231023023190
[914706.............17688372212433918514163
1915646..................1998227201234013311162
1916590.....................1616837112771085200
1917622........................1837612959...273
1918777...........................19867265601451
1919788..............................15815821...609
Total6,9591091251683613283333743323203722963.1181.4291472,265

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With regard to the notification of cases of non-pulmonary
Tuberculosis, in all 163 cases were notified (25 from Clapham,
11 from Putney, 31 from Streatham, 20 from Tooting, and 76
from Wandsworth).
Table XLVI. shows the number of these cases notified classified
according to the part of the body affected, as well as the number of
deaths in each class.