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CHEST CLINIC REPORT
I am indebted to Drs. P. Forgacs and D. G. Wraith, Chest
Physicians at the Greenwich Chest Clinic, for the following Report
on Tuberculosis in the Borough.
The Clinic Tuberculosis register is as under: —
Men Women Boys Girls Total
Pulmonary Tuberculosis 523 413 19 17 972
Non-pulmonary Tuberculosis 18 19 3 6 46
1,018
Total No. of attendances (This includes both tuberculous
and non-tuberculous chest conditions) 7,583
Deaths (all causes) (9 results of pulmonary tuberculosis) 21
Thirty new cases of pulmonary tuberculosis were notified
during the year in the undermentioned age groups: —
Males Years Females
3 10-20 —
2 21-30 1
4 31-40 2
2 41-50 1
5 51-60 1
7 61-70 —
1 71-80 1
Fifteen were referred to the Chest Clinic by their own doctors
with chest symptoms, 1 was referred because his son had a
positive tuberculin test, 1 was a contact of his wife who had tuberculosis, 2 as a result of routine Mass X-ray, 10 diagnosed in other
hospitals and 1 diagnosed posthumously.
Four cases of non-tuberculosis were notified 3 men (Renal,
Cervical adenitis and Neck lymphadenitis) and 1 woman (tuberculous knee).
Twenty-seven patients have been transferred out to other
Clinics and 24 have been transferred into this Clinic. One
hundred and twenty-eight ante-natal patients have been X-rayed
but no tuberculous disease was found amongst these. Eighty-eight
children and young adults were given B.C.G. inoculation because
they were contacts of cases with tuberculosis. Twenty-eight Positive
Mantoux children were referred to us from school because they
were found to have positive tuberculin tests. None of these had