London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Fulham 1927
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1927
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| Insured | 1612 |
| Uninsured | 2666 |
| Total | 4278 |
| Pulmonary | 162 |
| Non-pulmonary | 63 |
| Total | 225 |
| No. of Sputa examined | 1776 |
| No. of physical examinations | 3847 |
| No. of Contacts examined | 479 |
| No. of Home visits paid by Doctors | 592 |
| Consultations | 76 |
| 668 | |
| No. of Home visits paid by Nurses | 5422 |
| No. of Reports sent to Public Bodies | 727 |
| No. of Reports sent to Doctors | 396 |
| No. of Patients referred to Brompton | 4 |
| For X-ray | 56 |
| No. of Notified patients on Dispensary books on 31st December, 1927 | 902 |
| No. of Patients sent to Institutions or to the country in 1927 | 249 |
Institutional Treatment arranged through the Dispensary.—The
authority responsible for the provision
of sanatorium treatment in London is the London
County Council, and patients whom the Tuberculosis
Officers consider it advisable to send away are referred
to the Medical Officer of Health, London County Council,
who makes the necessary arrangements with the different
sanatoria and hospitals for their admission. In the past
year the great majority of the cases that have been
sent forward have been accepted and on the whole the
scheme may be said to have run smoothly, but it must
be understood that it is only when the stage of disease