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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 1946
Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell annual (abridged) report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1946
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The total number of cases on the Notification Registe at the end
of the year was 1,960, i.e., 1,632 respiratory and 328 non-respiratory.
The ratio Of non-notified deaths to the total number of deaths was
1 to 5.8.
WORK OF TEH TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARY DURING 1946.
| 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 | ||
| A- New Cases examined during the year (excluding contacts):- | |||||||||||||
| (a) Definitely Tuberculous | 112 | 75 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 7 | – | 2 | 115 | 82 | 6 | 3 | 206 |
| (b) Diagnosis not completed | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 70 | 81 | 33 | 33 | 217 |
| (c) Non-tuberculous | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 440 | 550 | 103 | 125 | 1218 |
| B- Contacts examined during the year:- | I I | I | I— | ||||||||||
| (a) Definitely tuberculous | 22 | 19 | 9 | 7 | – | – | 1 | 2 | 22 | 19 | 10 | 9 | 60 |
| (b) Diagnosis not completed | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 9 | 23 | 19 | 18 | 69 |
| (c) Non-tuberculous | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 140 | 216 | 84 | 94 | 534 |
| C- Cases written off the Dispensary Register as:- | |||||||||||||
| (a) Recovered | 19 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | – | 25 | 20 | 4 | 1 | 50 |
| (b) Non-tuberculous (including any such cases previously diagnosed and entered on the Dispensary Register as tuberculous). | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 651 | 836 | 214 | 243 | 1944 |
| D- Number of cases on Dispensary Register on December 31st:- | 4 | i | |||||||||||
| (a) Definitely tuberculous | 673 | 605 | 87 | 75 | 81 | 118 | 39 | 62 | 754 | 723 | 126 | 137 | 1740 |
| (b) Diagnosis not completed | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 79 | 104 | 52 | 51 | 286 |