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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 1933
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1933
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| Diagnosis. | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | Total. | Grand Total. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adults. | Children. | Adults. | Children. | Adults. | Children. | |||||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |||||
| A.—New cases examined during the year (excluding contacts)—- | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | |||
| (a) Definitely tuberculous | 41 | 32 | 2 | — | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 46 | 36 | 4 | 3 | 433 | |||
| (6) Diagnosis not completed | — | — | — | — | — | — | _ | — | — | 9 | _ | 3 | ||||
| _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | 78 | 136 | 79 | 46 | |||||
| B.—Contacts examined during the year :— | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | |||
| (a) Definitely tuberculous | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | 1 | ___ | 131 | |||
| _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | |||||
| (c) Non-tuberculous | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 19 | 32 | 37 | 41 | ||||
| C.—Cases written off the Dis-pensary Register as :— | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | |||
| (a) Recovered | 3 | 11 | — | 1 | _ | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 497 | |||
| (b) Non-tuberculous (includ-ing any such cases pre-viously diagnosed and en-tered on the Dispensary Register as tuberculous) | ||||||||||||||||
| _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | !)8 | 174 | 117 | 86 | |||||
| D.—Number of Cases on Dis-pensary Register on December 31st :— | ||||||||||||||||
| (a) Definitely tuberculous | 142 | 116 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 15 | 18 | 12 | 157 | 131 | 23 | 14 | 328 | |||
| _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | — | 1 | — | 2 | |||||
| 1. Number of cases on Dispensary Register on January 1st | 321 | 2. Number of cases transferred from other areas and cases returned after discharge under Head 3 in previous years | 35 | |||||||||||||
| 3. Number of cases transferred to other areas, cases not desiring further assistance under the scheme, and cases " lost sight of" | 64 | 4. Cases written off during the year as Dead (all causes) | 31 | |||||||||||||
| 5. Number of attendances at the Dis-pensary (including Contacts) ... | 2,197 | 6. Number of Insured Persons under Domiciliary Treatment on the 31st December | 6 | |||||||||||||
| 7. Number of consultations with medical practitioners :— | 8. Number of visits by Tuberculosis Officers to homes (including personal consultations) | 56 | ||||||||||||||
| (a) Personal | 5 | |||||||||||||||
| (6) Other | 95 | |||||||||||||||
| 9. Number of visits by Nurses or Health Visitors to homes for Dispensary purposes | 10. Number of :— (a) Specimens of sputum, etc., examined | 289 | ||||||||||||||
| 3,433 | (6) X-ray examinations made in connection with Dispensary work | 361 | ||||||||||||||
| 11. Number of " Recovered " cases restored to Dispensary Register, and included in A (a) and A (b) above | 12. Number of " T.B. plus " cases on Dispensary Register on Decem-ber 31st | 127 | ||||||||||||||
| B.—Number of Dispensaries for the treatment of Tuberculosis (excluding centres used only for special forms of treatment) :— Provided by the Council | ||||||||||||||||
| Provided by Voluntary Bodies One | ||||||||||||||||
| (Signed) W. H. L. McCARTHY, Chief Tuberculosis Officer. | ||||||||||||||||