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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 1935
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1935
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TABLE No. 49.
| 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 | 27 | 2 | — | 2 | 28 | |||||||||
| (b) Diagnosis not completed | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| (c) Non-tuberculous | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 121 | 64 | ||||
| B.—Contacts examined during the year:— | ||||||||||||||
| (a) Definitely tuberculous | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| (b) Diagnosis not completed | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| (c) Non-tuberculous | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 20 | 30 | ||||
| C.—Cases written off the Dispensary Register as:— | 462 | |||||||||||||
| (a) Recovered | 7 | — | 2 | 1 | — | 8 | 2 | — | ||||||
| (b) Non-tuberculous (including any such cases previously diagnosed and entered on the Dispensary Register as tuberculous) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 161 | |||||
| D.—Number of Cases on Dispensary Register on December 31st:— | ||||||||||||||
| (a) Definitely tuberculous | 131 | 110 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 12 | 143 | 126 | 20 | 18 | ||||
| (b) Diagnosis not completed | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
| 1. Number of cases on Dispensary Register on January 1st | 2. Number of cases transferred from other areas and cases returned after discharge under Head 3 in previous years | |||||||||||||
| 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) | 30 | |||||||||||
| 5. Number of attendances at the Dispensary (including Contacts) | 2,204 | 6. Number of Insured Persons under Domiciliary Treatment on the 31st December | 3 | |||||||||||
| 7. Number of consultations with medical practitioners:— (a.) Personal (b.) Other | 2 92 | 8. Number of visits by Tuberculosis Officers to homes (including personal consultations) | 48 | |||||||||||
| 9. Number of visits by Nurses or Health Visitors to homes for Dispensary purposes | 3,420 | 10. Number of:— (a.) Specimens of sputum, etc., examined | 274 | |||||||||||
| (b.) X-ray examinations made in connexion with Dispensary work | 518 | |||||||||||||
| 11. Number of "Recovered" cases restored to Dispensary Register, and included in A(a) and A(i) above | 12. Number of "T.B. plus" cases on Dispensary Register on December 31st | 125 | ||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||