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TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARY.
Number of Primary Notifications
413
Number of Deaths (all forms)
206
Death Rate per annum
1.70
Number of cases admitted to Sanatorium
251
Total number of attendances
5,985
Total number of examinations (including new
cases, re-examinations and contacts)
3,281
Total number of new patients
784
Number of nurses' home visits
4,399
Number of doctors' home visits
103
Number of contacts examined
723
Number of reports to public authorities ...
1,137
Number of letters to doctors
567
Number of sputum examinations
1,174
Number of X-ray examinations
96
No. of beds on loan
13
A special report, a copy of which is subjoined, was submitted to
the Council in October, 1922.
Prevalence of Tuberculosis.
The following report was drawn up jointly by the Assistant
Tuberculosis Officer, Dr. D. M. Connan and myself in January,
1922:—
"Prevalence of the Disease in Bermondsey.—lt is extremely
difficult to form an estimate of the prevalence of Tuberculosis in the
Borough, but taking the basis adopted by the County Council, which
is made on the assumption that the average life of a tuberculous
patient is five years, this means that at any given time there are five
cases for each notification, viz., 2,275 for the whole Borough. As
the inhabitants of the Borough almost entirely belong to the working
classes, this must be considered as a rather conservative figure, as it
is based on the experience of all London. On the books of the
Dispensary there are 7,433 cases, and as we have had some 2,000
deaths since the Dispensary started, this would leave about 5,400