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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 1940
Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell annual (abridged) report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1940
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| Diagnosis | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Total | Grand Total. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adults | Children. | Adults | Children. | Adults | Children. | ||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | ||
| B – Contacts examined, during the year :- | |||||||||||||
| (a) Definitely tuberculous | 13 | 7 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 13 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 22 |
| (b) Diagnosis not completed | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 15 |
| (c) Non-tuberculous | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 84 | 142 | 65 | 49 | 340 |
| C – Cases written off the Dispensary Register as:- | |||||||||||||
| (a) Recovered | 6 | 8 | 1 | – | 1 | – | 2 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 19 |
| (b) Non-tuberculous (including any such cases previously diagnosed and entered on the Dispensary Register as tuberculous) | – | - | – | – | – | – | – | – | 367 | 340 | 78 | 64 | 849 |
| D- Number of Cases on Dispensary Register on December 31st:- | |||||||||||||
| (a) Definitely tuberculous | 621 | 464 | 57 | 53 | 109 | 126 | 81 | 78 | 730 | 590 | 138 | 131 | 1,589 |
| (b) Diagnosis not completed | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 13 | 8 | 5 | 2 | * 28 |
1. Number of cases on Dispensary
Register on January 1st 1,680
2. Number of cases transferred
from other areas
and cases returned after
discharge under Head 3
In previous years 65
3. Number of cases transferred
to other areas, cases not desiring
further assistance under
the scheme and cases "lost
sight of" 208
4. Cases written off during
the year as Dead (all
causes) 115
6. Number of Insured Persons
under Domiciliary
Treatment on the 31st
December 346
5. Number of attendants at the
Dispensary (including
contacts) 5,781
8. Number of visits by
Tuberculosis Officers
to homes (including
personal consultations) 437
7. Number of consultations with
medical practitioners:-
(a) Personal 62
(b) Other 1,741
10. Number of
(a) Specimens of sputum -
etc . examined 646
(b) X-ray examinations
made in connection
with dispensary Work 1,410
9. Number of visits by Nurses
or Health Visitors to homes
for Dispensary purposes 7,924
11. Number of "Recovered" cases
restored to Dispensary
Register, and included in
A(a) and A(b) above 2
12. Number of T.B. plus"
cases on Dispensary.
Register on December
31st 660