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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
Bethnal Green 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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The Tuberculosis Visitors paid 3,138 visits to
patients.
Grants of extra nourishment in the form of milk,
Ovaltine or invalid meals were made in 280 cases.
TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARY.
The work of the Tuberculosis Dispensary at the London Chest Hospital continued to increase and is revealed in the following- figures:—
| Diagnosis of New Cases. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adults | Children under 15 | |||||
| Diagnosis | Males | Females | Males | Females | Total | |
| Pulmonary tuberculosis | 47 | 41 | 2 | 4 | 94 | |
| Non-pulmonary tuberculosis | 5 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 12 | |
| Non-Tuberculous | 195 | 800 | 64 | 73 | 632 | |
| Doubtful | 3 | 4 | 1 | — | 8 | |
| 250 | 347 | 68 | 81 | 746 | ||
| Diagnosis of Contact Cases. | ||||||
| Pulmonary tuberculosis | 2 | |||||
| Non-pulmonary tuberculosis | — | |||||
| Non-tuberculous | 177 | |||||
| Doubtful | — | |||||
| Total | 179 | |||||
| Other Figures. | ||||||
| Total number of Attendances | 2,909 | |||||
| Number of Patients sent to hospital or sanatoria by the L.C.C. | 48 | |||||
| Number of visits to patients at their homes | 96 | |||||
| Number of attendances at: | ||||||
| X-ray Department | 1,356 | |||||
| Artificial Pneumothorax Clinic | 816 | |||||
| Other Departments | 23 | |||||
| Sputum Examinations | 435 | |||||