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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
Camberwell 1939
Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell annual (abridged) report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1939
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NOTIFICATION REGISTER.
| Age Periods | New Cases.* | Deaths †| ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Respiratory | Non Respiratory | Respiratory | Non Respiratory. | |||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| 0 ... | – | – | – | 2 | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| 1 ... | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | – | – | 2 | 3 |
| 5 ... | 5 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| 15 ... | 31 | 39 | – | 3 | 9 | 16 | 3 | 3 |
| 25 ... | 35 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 12 | 3 | 1 |
| 35 ... | 24 | 9 | 1 | – | 19 | 9 | – | 1 |
| 45 ... | 29 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 5 | 1 | – |
| 55 ... | 19 | 4 | – | 1 | 16 | 7 | – | – |
| 65 and upwards | 8 | 5 | – | – | 8 | 5 | 1 | – |
| Totals | 153 | 95 | 13 | 15 | 90 | 55 | 11 | 9 |
Includes primary formal notifications and cases which came to
the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health from other sources
After corrections for Inward and Outward Transfers.
The total number of cases on the register at the end of the year
was 2,054, i.e. 1,565 pulmonary, 489 non-pulmonary.
The rate of non-notified deaths to the total deaths was 1 to 33
as compared with 1 to 12.8 in 1938.
No case of wilful neglect or refusal to notify cases on the part
of medical practitioners occurred.
No occasion arose during 1939 for any action under the Public
Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations 1925 or the Public
Health Act 1936. Sect on 172.
WORK of the TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARY during 1939.
| [] | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Total | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adults | Children. | Adults | Children. | Adults | Children. | Grand Total. | |||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | ||
| A – New cases examined during the year (excluding contacts):- | 108 | 76 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 114 | 88 | 12 | 6 | 220 |
| (a) Definitely tuberculous ....... | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 18 |
| (b) Diagnosis not completed ......... | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 261 | 246 | 43 | 44 | 594 |
| (c) Non-tuberculous | |||||||||||||
| B – Contacts examined during the year:- | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
| (a) Definitely tuberculous ....... | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 |
| (b) Diagnosis not completed ......... | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 63 | 100 | 66 | 65 | 294 |
| (c) Non-tuberculous | |||||||||||||
| C – Cases written off the Dispensary Register as:- | 12 | 6 | – | 2 | – | – | 3 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 26 |
| (a) Recovered ..... | |||||||||||||