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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 1927

Report on the health of the Borough of Bethnal Green during the year 1927

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Table: TUBERCULOSIS SCHEME. (4) PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS. Annual Return showing in summary form the condition of all Patients whose case records are in the possession of *the Dispensary (or Dispensaries) at the end of 1927, arranged according to the years in which the patients first came under Public Medical Treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis, and their classification as shown on Form A.

TUBERCULOSIS SCHEME. (4) PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS. Annual Return showing in summary form the condition of all Patients whose case records are in the possession of *the Dispensary (or Dispensaries) at the end of 1927, arranged according to the years in which the patients first came under Public Medical Treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis, and their classification as shown on Form A.

Condition at the time of the last record made during the year to which the Return relatesClass T.B. minus19261927
Class T.B. plusClassT.B. minusClass T.B. plus
Group 1Group 2Group 3Total (Class T.B. plus)Group 1Group 2Group 3Total (Class T.B. plus)
Alive Disease not arrestedAdultsM.8*812424†5514928
F.8665178611522
ChildrenM.1............4†1......1
F.1............2............
Lost sight of or otherwise removed from Dispensary Register32215...11...2
DeadAdultsM.22611191...235
F.1...112131......22
ChildrenM.1............1............
F..........11...............
Totals25182734792213281960

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* Including two 1926 cases transferred from other areas during 1927.
†See Non-pulmonary previous to 1926.