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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 1944
Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell annual (abridged) report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1944
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The total number of cares on the Tuberculosis Register at the
end of the year was 1,727 i.e., 1,422 pulmonary, 305 non-pulmonary.
The ratio of non-notified deaths to the total deaths was 1 to
8.4 as compared with 1 to 12.5 in 1943.
No case of wilful-neglect or refusal to notify casus on the part
of medical practitioners occurred.
No occasion arose during 1944 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- 1944.
WORK OF THE TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARY DURING- 1944.
| Diagnosis | 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):- | 71 | 48 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 5 | – | 79 | 52 | 10 | 2 | 143 |
| (a) Definitely Tuberculous... | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 23 | 25 | 3 | 4 | 55 |
| (b) Diagnosis not completed .... | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 252 | 370 | 36 | 24 | 682 |
| (c) Non-tuberculous | |||||||||||||
| B-Contacts examined during the year:- | 31 | 21 | 2 | 4 | – | – | 2 | 3 | 31 | 21 | 4 | 7 | 63 |
| (a) Definitely Tuberculosis .. | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 10 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 38 |
| (b) Diagnosis not completed .... | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 92 | 171 | 58 | 43 | 364 |
| (c) Non-tuberculous | |||||||||||||
| C-Cases written off the Dispensary Register as:- | 21 | 11 | – | – | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 24 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 44 |
| (a ) Recovered .... | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | — | 361 | 562 | 100 | 76 | 1099 |
| (b) Non-tuberculous (including any such cases previously diagnosed and entered on the Dispensary Register as tuberculous). | |||||||||||||
| D – Number of cases on Dispensary Register on December 31st:- | 590 | 518 | 72 | 68 | 92 | 120 | 35 | 52 | 682 | 638 | 107 | 120 | 1547 |
| (a) Definitely Tuberculous | – | – | – | – | — | – | – | – | 33 | 36 | 12 | 12 | 93 |
| (b) Diagnosis not completed .... | |||||||||||||