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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

Greenwich 1933

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich Borough]

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Table: PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS. Supplementary Annual Return showing in summary form (a) the condition at the end of 1933 of all patients remaining on the Dispensary Register; and (b) the reasons for the removal of all case written off the Register. The Table is arranged according to the years in which the patients were first entered on the Dispensary Register as definite cases of pulmonary tuber-culosis, and their classification at that time.

PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS. Supplementary Annual Return showing in summary form (a) the condition at the end of 1933 of all patients remaining on the Dispensary Register; and (b) the reasons for the removal of all case written off the Register. The Table is arranged according to the years in which the patients were first entered on the Dispensary Register as definite cases of pulmonary tuber-culosis, and their classification at that time.

Condition at the time of the last record made during the year to which the return relatesPrevious to 19261926192719281929
Class T.B. minusjClass T.B. plusClass T.B. minusClass T.B. plusClass T.B. minusClass T.B. plusClass T.B. minusClass T.B. plusClass T.B. minusClass T.B. plus
Group 1Group 2Group 3Total (Class T.B. plus)Group 1Group 2Group 3Total (Class T.B. plus)Group 1Group 2Group 3Total (Class T.B. plus)Group 1Group 2Group 3Total (Class T.B. plus)Group 1Group 2Group 3Total (Class T.B. plus)
(a) Remaining on Dispensary Register on 31st December.Disease ArrestedAdultsM1522152122
F.25538651
Children23167
Disease not ArrestedAdultsM.1010631941344268534799918
F.1254952242671127426
Children563117
Condition not ascertained during the year211
Total on Dispensary Register at 31st December922315442391562088162445923131124
(b) Not now on Dispensary Register and reasons for removal therefromDischarged as RecoveredAdultsM.598311
F.85111113
Children176111
Lost sight of, or otherwise removed from Dispensary Register3127042141321943411126102189581312104216
DeadAdultsM.90261181512955616133519913312614153521115632
F.54357110421031359349518638718564515
Children5215611112
Total written off Dispensary Register8281562372756682912222256171928206717143022602127231363
Grand Totals9201792522797106813272262372736208341183522754440341387