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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
Battersea 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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125
Form T145.
| 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 | 73 | 57 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 78 | 66 | 9 | 10 | 163 | ||
| *(6) Diagnosis not completed | — | — | — | — | — | — | —- | — | 21 | 21 | 12 | 17 | 71 | ||
| (ic) Non-tuberculous | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 106 | 130 | 55 | 52 | 343 | ||
| B.—Contacts examined during the year:— (a) Definitely tuberculous | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 2 | ||||
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | ||||
| (c) Non-tuberculous | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 30 | 60 | 68 | 60 | 218 | ||
| C.—Cases written of! the Dispensary Register as— | 17 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 10 | IS | 17 | 12 | 58 | |||
| (b) Non-tuberculous (including any such cases previously diagnosed and entered on the Dispensary Register as tuberculous) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 154 | 222 | 126 | 636 | |||
| D.—Number of cases on Dispensary Register on December 31st :— | 315 | 246 | 19 | 28 | 34 | 48 | 69 | 41 | 349 | 294 | 88 | 69 | 800 | ||
| (b) Diagnosis not completed | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 24 | 30 | 19 | 35 | 108 | ||
| 1. Number of cases on Dispensary Register on January 1st | 933 | 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 " | 96 | 4. Cases written off during the year as Dead (all causes) | 92 | ||||||||||||
| 5. Number of attendances at the Dispensary (including Contacts) | 3,863 | 6. Number of Insured Persons under Domiciliary Treatment on the 31st December | 186 | ||||||||||||
| 7. Number of consultations with medical practitioners :— | 12 | 8. Number of visits by Tuberculosis Officers to homes (including personal consultations) f | 340 | ||||||||||||
| 320 | |||||||||||||||
| 9. Number of visits by Nurses or Health Visitors to Homes for Dispensary purposes | 4,035 | 10. Number of (a) Specimens of sputum, &c., examined | 622 ( + 268 non-dis) 204 | ||||||||||||
| 11. Number of " Recovered " cases restored to Dispensary Register, and included in A (a) and A (6) above | 3 | 12. Number of " T.B. plus " cases on Dispensary Register on December 31st | 395 | ||||||||||||
| (B.)—Number of Dispensaries for the treatment of Tuberculosis (excluding centres used only for special forms of treatment):— Provided by the Council 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Provided by Voluntary Bodies — | |||||||||||||||
• i.e., remaining undiagnosed on 31st December. [See Memo. 37/T (Revised), p. 10, Sec. II., Note 4.]
† All personal consultations, whether held at the homes of patients or elsewhere, should be included
in item 7 (a) ; and all visits by Tuberculosis Officers to homes, whether or not accompanied by a personal
consultation already included in item 7 (a), should be entered in item 8.