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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
Hampstead 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]
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Eighty-eight cases of scabies were notified during the year. These
were investigated by the Health Visitors and, where necessary, treatment
arranged at the Public Health Station.
Notices under the Scabies Order were served where difficulty arose
in obtaining the attendance of contacts, but in no case was legal proceedings
required to be taken.
Tuberculosis.
New Gases and Mortality during 1947.
During the year 1947, 96 new cases of Tuberculosis were notified,
87 being cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis and 9 of other forms of
the disease.
The following statistical table, prescribed by the Ministry of Health, gives an analysis of the newly notified cases and deaths during 1947 :—
| Age Periods. | New Cases. | Deaths. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Respiratory. | Non-Respiratory. | Respiratory. | Non-Respiratory. | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| 0—1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| 1—5 | 3 | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | 1 |
| 5—15 | 2 | 2 | 2 | — | — | 1 | — | 1 |
| 15—25 | 8 | 13 | 2 | — | 1 | 4 | — | 1 |
| 25—35 | 9 | 16 | — | — | 2 | 6 | 1 | — |
| 35—5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | — |
| 45—55 | 6 | 5 | — | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 55—65 | 10 | 3 | — | — | 5 | 1 | — | 2 |
| 65 and upwards | 1 | 2 | — | — | — | 2 | — | 1 |
| Totals | 42 | 45 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 17 | 3 | 8 |
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1930.
There were 567 Pulmonary and 77 Non-pulmonary cases of tuberculosis
known to the Department at the end of the year 1947.
Municipal Chest Clinic and Tuberculosis Dispensary.
(a) Chest Clinic and Tuberculosis Dispensary.
1947. 1946.
Number of sessions 155 152
Number of patients' attendances 3,227 2,633
Average attendance 20.8 17.3
Number of patients attending 1,046 980
New patients 369 428
New contacts 136 130
Number of patients examined for
National Service Medical Board 21 41
Blood examinations (E.S.R.) 91 84