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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 1942
Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell annual (abridged) report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1942
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The total number of cases on the Tuberculosis Register
at the end of the year was 1,723 i.e. 1,401 pulmonary, 327
non-pulmonary.
The rate of non-notified deaths to the total deaths was
1 to 4.19 compared with 1 to 9.8. in 1941.
No case of wilful neglect or refusal to' notify cases on
the part of medical practitioners occurred.
No occasion arose during 1942 for any action under the
Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations 1925
or the Public Health Act 1936, Section 172.
WORK OF THE TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARY DURING 1942.
| Diagnosis. | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonery | 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: | |||||||||||||
| (a) definitely tuberculous | 70 | 59 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 76 | 68 | 17 | 10 | 171 |
| (b) diagnosis not completed | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 10 | 4 | 1 | – | 15 |
| (c) non-tuberculous | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 165 | 173 | 8 | 23 | 369 |
| B. Contacts examined during the year:- | |||||||||||||
| (a) definitely tuberculous | 18 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 19 | 16 | 3 | .1 | 39 |
| (b) diagnosis not completed | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 19 | 4 | 7 | 33 |
| (c) non-tuberculous | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 113 | 151 | 56 | 53 | 373 |
| C. Cases written off the Dispensary register as:- | |||||||||||||
| (a) recovered | 11 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 17 | 23 | 13 | 3 | 56 |
| (b) non-tuberculous (including any such cases previously diagnosed and entered on the Dispensary Register as tuberculous) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 280 | 329 | 67 | 77 | 753 |
| D. Number of cases on Dispensary register on 31st December:- | |||||||||||||
| (a) Definitely tuberculous | 589 | 462 | 61 | 62 | 91 | 109 | 41 | 54 | 680 | 571 | 102 | 116 | 1469 |