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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 1937
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1937
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TABLE No. 50.
Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
| Condition at the time of the last record made during the year to which the return relates. | Previous to 1927 | 1927. | 1928. | 1929 | 1930. | 1931. | 1932. | 1933. | 1934. | 1935. | 1936. | 1937. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Class T.B. minus. | Class T.B. plus | Class T.B. minus. | Class T.B. plus | Class T.B. minus. | Class T.B. plus | Class T.B. minus. | Class T.B. plus | Class T.B. minus. | Class T.B. plus | Class T.B. minus. | Class T.B. plus | Class T.B. minus. | Class T.B. plus | Class T.B. minus. | Class T.B. plus | Class T.B. minus. | Class T.B. plus | Class T.B. minus. | Class T.B. plus | Class T.B. minus. | Class T.B, plus | Class T.B. minus. | Class T.b. plus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Group 1. | Group 2. | Group 3. | Total (Class T.B. plus). | Group 1. | Group 2. | Group 3. | Total (Class T.B. plus). | Group 1. | Group 2. | Group 3. | Total (Class T.B. plus). | Group 1. | Group 2. | Group 3. | Total (Class T.B plus). | Group 1. | Group 2. | Group 3. | Total (Class T.B. plus). | Group 1. | Group 2. | Group 3. | Total (Class T.B. plus) | Group 1. | Group 2. | Group 3. | Total (Class T.B. plus) | Group 1. | Group 2. | Group 3. | Total (Class T.B. plus). | Group 1. | Group 2. | Group 3. | Total (Class T.B. plus). | Group 1. | Group 2 | Group 3. | Total (Class T.B. plus). | Group 1. | Group 2. | Group 3. | Total (Class T.B. plus). | Group 1. | Group 2. | Group 3. | Total (Class T.b. plus). | ||||||||||||||||
| (a) Remaining on Dispensary Register on 3lst December. | Disease Arrested | Adults | m. | - | 2 | 2 | - | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | 3 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| F | 3 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | - | 3 | - | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| Children | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
| Disease not Arrested | Adults | M. | - | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 5 | - | 8 | - | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 13 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 17 | |
| F. | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 3 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | 2 | - | 3 | - | - | 3 | - | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 4 | 3 | 6 | - | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 10 | |||||
| Children | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 2 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | |||
| Condition not ascertained during the year | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Total on Dispensary Register at 31st December | 6 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 15 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | - | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | - | 6 | 2 | 4 | 5 | - | 9 | 6 | 1 | 6 | - | 7 | 7 | 4 | 10 | - | 14 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 13 | 14 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 19 | 12 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 18 | 31 | 6 | 16 | 6 | 27 | ||||
| (b) Not now on Dispensary Registerand reasons for removal therefrom. | Discharged as Recovered | Adults | M. | 19 | 9 | 7 | - | 16 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 4 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| F. | 18 | 11 | 2 | - | 13 | 7 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 7 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Children | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Lost sight of, or otherwise removed from Dispensary Register | 86 | 42 | 50 | 7 | 99 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 6 | - | 11 | 13 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 22 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 18 | 14 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 20 | 25 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 20 | 22 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 19 | 13 | 2 | 16 | 1 | 19 | 10 | 4 | 9 | _ | 13 | 15 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 17 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | |||
| Dead | Adults | M. | 27 | 30 | 97 | 41 | 168 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 13 | - | 3 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 9 | - | 1 | 16 | 5 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 14 | 4 | - | 2 | 6 | 8 | 2 | - | 5 | 4 | 9 | - | - | 5 | 8 | 13 | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | ||
| F. | 19 | 12 | 43 | 35 | 90 | 5 | - | 7 | 4 | 11 | - | 2 | 5 | 5 | 12 | - | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 2 | - | 5 | 2 | 7 | - | - | 4 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 12 | - | - | 5 | 9 | 1 | - | 5 | 4 | 9 | 1 | - | - | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Children | 4 | - | 5 | - | 5 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | _ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | ||||
| Total written off Dispensary Register | 184 | 104 | 204 | 83 | 391 | 22 | 5 | 28 | 8 | 41 | 11 | 10 | 18 | 11 | 39 | 24 | 17 | 20 | 9 | 46 | 29 | 16 | 23 | 8 | 47 | 24 | 10 | 22 | 5 | 37 | 29 | 8 | 32 | 9 | 49 | 32 | 8 | 23 | 6 | 37 | 18 | 3 | 24 | 12 | 39 | 13 | 4 | 18 | 10 | 32 | 16 | 4 | 22 | 13 | 39 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 13 | |||
| Grand Totals | 190 | 211 | 84 | 406 | 23 | 5 | 29 | 8 | 42 | 12 | 10 | 21 | 11 | 42 | 26 | 17 | 21 | 9 | 47 | 33 | 18 | 27 | 8 | 53 | 26 | 14 | 27 | 6 | 46 | 35 | 9 | 38 | 9 | 56 | 39 | 12 | 33 | 6 | 51 | 28 | 7 | 32 | 13 | 52 | 27 | 9 | 31 | 11 | 51 | 28 | 7 | 34 | 16 | 57 | 37 | 9 | 19 | 12 | 40 | ||||