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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

Battersea 1925

Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1925

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Powers were given to the Local Authority under proper safeguards
to require persons engaged in handling milk who were
suffering from tuberculosis to discontinue their employment.*
One such case occurred during 1925, but the patient, a milk
roundsman, after examination at the Dispensary and Hospital, was
certified to be cured and was allowed to continue his occupation.
The notification register is regularly revised, and in all cases
of deaths, removals from the Borough, etc., the names of the
patients are forthwith removed from the register. A number of
cases are also removed after medical examination by the Tuberculosis
Officer, the disease being found to be arrested or cured.

Table: The result of the revision of the register during 1925 is shown in the following table:—

The result of the revision of the register during 1925 is shown in the following table:—

Pulmonary.Non-Pulmonary.Grand Total.
M.F.TotalM.F.Total
On register 1st Jan-uary, 19256225541,1763333006331,809
Additions—
New cases1401162566756123379
Removals into Borough2243259
Restored to register45911211
7686771,4454043597632,208
Deletions.
Deaths8670156241943199
Removals from Borough485199122840139
Cured or disease arrested8285167363066233
Diagnosis not con-firmed1_1-112
Other causes112536-——36
2282314597278150609
On register 1st Jan-uary, 19265404469863322816131,599
Divided between :—
Dispensary343254597138104242839
Male Inspectors180—18086—86266
Female Inspectors17192209108177285494
5404469863322816131,599

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*The Council empowered the Medical Officer of Health to serve such
notices where necessary.