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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 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell.
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TABLE XIV. Sleeping accommodation for 363 tuberculous cases notified for the first time in 1933. The figures refer to the Tuberculosis Nurse's first home visit.
| In separate room | In | 109 | cases. |
| Alone in bed with 1 other in room | „ | 29 | „ |
| „ „2 others „ | „ | 21 | „ |
| „ „ 3 „ „ | „ | 3 | „ |
| „ „4 „ „ | „ | 2 | „ |
| In bed with 1 person and no others in room | „ | 109 | „ |
| „ „ 1 „ 1 other in room | „ | 35 | „ |
| „ „ 1 „ 2 others | „ | 29 | „ |
| „1 „ 3 „ „ | „ | 9 | „ |
| „ 1 „ 4 „ | „ | 6 | „ |
| In bed with 2 persons and no others in room | „ | 6 | „ |
| „ „ 2 „ 1 other „ | „ | 4 | „ |
| „ „ 2 „ 2 others „ | „ | – | „ |
| „ „ 2 „ 3 „ „ | – | 1 | „ |
| In bed with 3 persons and no others in room | „ | 1 | „ |
| „ „ 4 „ „ „ | „ | – | „ |
| 363 |
The Nature and Extent of Co-operation with General and
Special Hospitals, School Clinics and other Institutions.
1. With General and Special Hospitals, (a) King's College
Hospital. Including cases sent to the X-ray Department, 550
Dispensary patients were sent to hospital in 1933 for an opinion
as to diagnosis, etc.
(b) Other Hospitals. Many of our patients when requested to
go to a hospital for further examination and opinion, asked to be
sent to the hospital they knew best, and we sent patients to the
following hospitals: —
St. Thomas's.
Sick Children's Hospital,
Great Ormond Street.
Guy's.
Throat Hospital, Golden
Square.
Charing Cross.
Westminster.
Brompton.
Miller.
Evelina.
South London Hospital
for Women.
Belgrave.
All Saints'.
Several patients were diagnosed in St. Giles' Hospital after a
period of observation. Apart from the above we had the opportunity
under the London County Council Tuberculosis Scheme
of getting patients admitted to special hospitals, for example,
Brompton and Highwood Hospitals, for observation as to diagnosis,
and to St. George's Home, Chelsea, among other Institutions for
disposal as to treatment.