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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
Chelsea 1925
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea, 1925
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TABLE No. 42. Chelsea Tuberculosis Dispensary, Brompton Hospital. Work done during 1925.
| Number of | Under observation at the Dispensary on Jan. 1st pending diagnosis. | Examined for the first time during the year. | Total. | Found to be | Under observation at the Dispensary on Dec. 31st pending diagnosis. | Ceased attendance before completion of diagnosis. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suffering from Tuberculosis. | Not suffering from Tuberculosis. | |||||||||||
| Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary | |||||||||||
| (a) All persons (including "Contacts.") | Adults | M. | 13 | 83 | 96 | 33 | 1 | 50 | 6 | 6 | ||
| F. | 24 | 125 | 149 | 25 | – | 107 | 7 | 10 | ||||
| Children under 15. | M. | 22 | 71 | 93 | – | – | 89 | – | 4 | |||
| F. | 24 | 78 | 102 | – | – | 93 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Total | 83 | 357 | 440 | 58 | 1 | 339 | 17 | 25 | ||||
| (b) "Contacts" (included in (a) ) | Adults. | M. | – | 11 | 11 | 1 | – | 10 | – | – | ||
| F. | 1 | 40 | 41 | 2 | – | 38 | – | 1 | ||||
| Children under 15. | M. | 1 | 17 | 18 | – | – | 18 | – | – | |||
| F. | 2 | 22 | 24 | – | – | 24 | – | – | ||||
| (c) Insured persons (included in (a) ). | { | m. | 10 | 64 | 74 | 23 | 1 | 42 | 4 | 4 | ||
| F. | 7 | 52 | 59 | 14 | – | 42 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| 1. Number of patients under treatment or supervision (excluding persons under observation or domiciliary treatment) on the 31st December* | 424 | 7. Number of persons referred to affiliated hospital for consultation | – | |||||||||
| 8. Number of consultations with medical practitioners at the homes of patients:— Insured | – | |||||||||||
| 2. Total number of attendances of patients at the Dispensary during the year:— | ||||||||||||
| Insured | 1,182 | Uninsured | – | |||||||||
| Uninsured | 1,820 | 9. Number of other visits paid by Tuberculosis Officers to the homes of patients... | 54 | |||||||||
| 3. Number of persons placed during the year under observation at the Dispensary for the purpose of diagnosis | 148 | |||||||||||
| 10. Number of visits paid by Nurses to the homes of patients for dispensary purposes | 2,818 | |||||||||||
| 4. Number of cases in which the period of observation at the Dispensary exceeded two months | 27 | |||||||||||
| 11. Number of specimens of sputum examined in connection with the work of the Dispensary | 520 | |||||||||||
| 5. Number of insured patients under domiciliary treatment on December 3 lst † | 19 | |||||||||||
| Wassermann Tests | 16 | |||||||||||
| 6. Number of reports received from Insurance Practitioners in respect of insured patients under domiciliary treatment durine the year | – | Complement Fixation Tests | 10 | |||||||||
| X-ray examinations | 67 | |||||||||||
* Insured persons under domiciliary treatment by Insurance practitioners are excluded, even though they may have attended the dispensary
at intervals for examination or consultation. Such cases are included under Head 5.
† All insured persons in the dispensary area who have actually received domiciliary treatment from Insurance practitioners are
included, irrespective of the date upon which they were placed under domiciliary treatment and of any attendance at the dispensary.
w. j. fenton, Tuberculosis Officer.