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Chelsea 1941
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea, 1941
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TABLE No. 52.
Treatment of Tuberculosis, Year 194 1.
| 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 | 18 | 1 | - | 1 | -__ | - | 1 | - | 145 | ||||
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 58 | 35 | 5 | 3 | ||
| 3.—Contacts examined during the year :— i . | |||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | - | _- | - | - | - | - | 1 | I | - | - | 91 | |
| (b) Diagnosis not completed | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| (c) Non-tuberculous | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 39 | 18 | |||
| 2.—Cases written off the Dispensary Register as :— | |||||||||||||
| (a) Recovered | 1 | - | - | l | 1 | - | - | 202 | |||||
| (b) Non-tuberculous (including any such cases previously diagnosed and entered on the Dispensary Register as tuberculous) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 72 | 25 | 22 | ||
| D.—Number of Cases on Dispensary Register on December 31st:— | |||||||||||||
| (a) Definitely tuberculous | 73 | 8 | - | 3 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 76 | 10 | 155 | |||
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1. Number of cases on Dispensary 2. Number of cases transferred from
Register on January 1st 180 other areas and cases returned
after discharge under Head 3 in
previous years 11
3. Number of cases transferred to [
other areas, cases not desiring 4. Cases written off during the year
further assistance under the | as Dead (all causes)
scheme, and cases " lost sight
of"46 6. Number of Insured Persons under
5. Number of attendances at the Dis- Domiciliary Treatment on the
pensary (including Contacts) 904 31st December
8. Number of visits by Tuberculosis
7. Number of consultations with Officers to homes (including
medical practitioners :— personal consultations) 9
(a) Personal
(b)Other 48 10. Number jf :—
• (a) Specimens of sputum, etc.,
9. Number of visits by Nurses or examined 59
Health Visitors to homes for (b) X-ray examinations made
Dispensary purposes 1,650 in connection with Dispensary
work 395
11. Number of " Recovered " cases 12. Number of " T.B. plus" cases on
restored to Dispensary Register, Dispensary Register on Decern-
and included in A (a) and A (b) . ber 31st 81
above
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.