Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich Borough]
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lady showing her occupation as 'school meals' who had extensive and possibly cavitated disease with a positive sputum.
You will note that we have been obliged to reduce the total
number examined in the Borough from 11,000 to about 8,000
but, in spite of this, numbers of abnormals detected have remained more or less unchanged".
Summary of Surveys Carried Out in the Borough from 1st January to 31st December, 1971
TOTALS EXAMINED | |||
MEN | 4,348 | ||
WOMEN | 3,461 | ||
7,809 | |||
ABNORMALITIES DETECTED | |||
(a) TUBERCULOUS | |||
Cases requiring close supervision or treatment | 3 | 1 | 4 |
Cases requiring occasional supervision | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Cases previously known requiring close supervision or treatment | — | — | — |
Cases previously known requiring occasional supervision | — | — | — |
4 | 3 | 7 | |
Still under investigation | — | — | — |
Failed to attend follow-up | — | 1 | 1 |
Total | 4 | 4 | 8 |
(b) NON-TUBERCULOUS | |||
Carcinoma of lung | 7 | 2 | 9 |
Carcinoma of lung (previously known) | — | — | — |
Malignant neoplasms other than carcinoma of lung | — | 1 | 1 |
Other non-tuberculous abnormalities (see below) | 31 | 20 | 51 |
38 | 23 | 61 | |
Still under investigation | — | — | — |
Failed to attend follow-up | — | — | — |
Unfit for investigation | — | — | — |
Total | 38 | 23 | 61 |
TOTALS—all abnormalities | 42 | 27 | 69 |