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(11) Number of Maternal Deaths with Causes 1
Post Partum Haemhorrhage between second
and third week after delivery, due to
Polypus of the Uterus. Died after operation
for Removal in Bermondsey and Botherhithe
Hospital.
(12) Number of Foetal Deaths, Stillborn or within 10 days
of Birth, and their Causes, and the results of PostMortem
Examination, if obtainable 1 Premature
TUBERCULOUS.
Tuberculosis Dispensary.
The following reports conce1rning the Tuberculosis Dispensary
were submitted to the Council in July of last year, and January
of the present year respectively, and, as a result, the Council
decided to take over the Dispensary at the beginning of the
financial year, April Ist, 1921. The salaries suggested in these
reports were not adopted at the time of writing (June, 1921), and
instructions were given that the matter should be brought up after
a period of probation. Several alterations in the administration
have been brought about by the Tuberculosis Act of 1921, and the
consequent re-arrangements for the treatment of insured patients
and soldiers, and a report of the working of the Dispensary will be
submitted in 1922.
Tuberculosis Scheme.
I regret that there has been so much delay in bringing the
present report before the Committee, but I understand that the
Medical Officer of the London County Council has in preparation
a review of the administrative schemes for Tuberculosis in London,
with certain recommendations, and I delayed matters in the
hope that the report would be in print, and that it might be
possible to incorporate the recommendations of the London
County Council with our scheme. This report is not yet published,
but I do not think it advisable to delay any longer in placing our
own scheme before the Council.
Prevalence of Tuberculosis in the Borough.
During the year 1919 the total number of deaths from Tuberculosis
in this Borough was 233, which gives a death rate of 1.9