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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
Bethnal Green 1924
Special report on an outbreak of Typhoid Fever in the Borough of Bethnal Green in 1924
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No. of Notifications on Forms C. & D.
| Poor Law Institutions. | Sanatoria. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | D | C | D | |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis— | ||||
| Male | 26 | 27 | 104 | 84 |
| Female | 25 | 15 | 47 | 27 |
| Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis— | ||||
| Male | 3 | 3 | 8 | 7 |
| Female | 4 | 3 | 11 | 14 |
C —upon admission.
D —upon discharge.
PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS)
REGULATIONS, 1921.
During the year the names of 224 patients were
removed from the Tuberculosis Register as follows : —
Deaths 181
Removals 43
Of the 43 patients who removed from the
Borough, it was possible in 24 instances to obtain the
new address of the patient, and these cases were duly
transferred to the Medical Officer of Health of the
district to which the patient had removed.
Four cases were added to the register of patients
who were reported by other Councils to have removed
into this Borough.
EX-SOLDIERS AND SAILORS SUFFERING
FROM TUBERCULOSIS.
Two hundred and six ex-Service men were under
observation during the year. There were 22 deaths
amongst these, and 7 removed from the Borough.
Four hundred and twenty-eight visits were paid
to these men by the Tuberculosis Health Visitor.