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Form T 145
TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS.
BATTERSEA METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL.
Return for the Year 1937.
(a.) Return showing the work of the Dispensary (or Dispensaries).
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
63
57
3
5
8
9
2
4
71
66
5
9
151
*(b) Diagnosis not completed
-
- -
-
-
-
- -
-
-
4
10
-
-
14
(c) Non-tuberculous
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
148
164
47
49
408
B.—Contacts examined during the
year:—
(a) Definitely tuberculous
1
1
—
—
—
—
-—
—
1
1
—
—
2
*(b) Diagnosis not completed
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
--
-
1
(e) Non-tuberculous
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
43
85
70
67
265
C.—Cases written off the Dispensary
Register as—
(a) Recovered
10
11
2
1
2
1
7
1
12
12
9
2
35
(b) Non-tuberculous (including
any such cases previously
diagnosed and entered on
the Dispensary Register as
tuberculous)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
198
253
117
117
685
D.—Number of cases on Dispensary
Register on December
31st:—
(a) Definitely tuberculous
296
225
15
22
34
38
37
42
330
263
52
64
709
(6) Diagnosis not completed ...
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4
11
—
-
15
1. Number of cases on Dispensary 2. Number of cases transferred from
Register on January 1st 739 other areas and cases returned
after discharge under Head 3 in
previous years 37
3. Number of cases transferred to 4. Cases written off during the year as
other areas, cases not desiring further Dead (all causes) 89
assistance under the tuberculosis
Scheme, and cases " lost sight of " 84
5. Number of attendances at the Dispen- 6. Number of Insured Persons under
sary (including Contacts) 4,837 Domiciliary Treatment on the 31st
December 137
7. Number of consultations with medical 8. Number of visits by Tuberculosis
practitioners :— Officers to homes (including pcr-
(a) Personal 7 sonal consultations) 362
(b) Other 400
9. Number of visits by Nurses or Health 10. Number of
Visitors to homes for Dispensary (a) Specimens of sputum, &c., exam- 586
purposes 3,884 ined 285
(b) X-ray examinations made in con- non-dis)
nection with Dispensary work ... 921
11. Number of "Recovered" cases re- 12. Number of "T.B. phis" cases on
stored to Dispensary Register, and Dispensary Register on December
included in A (a) and A (b) above... 2 31st 375
(B.)—Number of Dispensaries for the treatment of Tuberculosis (excluding centres used only
for special forms of treatment) :—
Provided by the Council One
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.