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Islington 1932

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

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1932]
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Besides the more typical activities of a Care Committee, a Home Library has
been started this year for patients and this has been much appreciated. Islington
was the first London Borough to start a library of this kind and it has proved a
great success. Gifts of books for the Library are always welcome.
Islington was also the first Borough to start an Allotments Scheme for
ex-sanatorium patients. Three plots are now rented which provide six men with
a useful and absorbing hobby, and one which keeps them out in the open ait.
Keen interest is shown, and this piece of pioneer work has proved well worth while.
Two jumble sales were held in aid of the scheme during the year with satisfactory
results, £5 7s. 9d. being raised.
The Handicraft Class continues to be held weekly in the Royal Chest Hospital
and is a source of much interest to many patients on whose hands time is otherwise
apt to hang heavily.
PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS, 1930.
The provisions of these Regulations continue to be systematically carried out
with regard to the Register of Notified Cases of Tuberculosis. A quarterly
revision of the Register is made by the removal of the names of patients who
have died, left the district, and those, who in the opinion of the Tuberculosis
Officer, confirmed by the L.C.C. Medical Officer, should be denotified.

Table: The following is a statistical statement showing the number of cases of Notified Tuberculosis on the register at the commencement of the year, the numbers, removed during that period, and the actual number remaining at the close of the year, 1932.

The following is a statistical statement showing the number of cases of Notified Tuberculosis on the register at the commencement of the year, the numbers, removed during that period, and the actual number remaining at the close of the year, 1932.

Lungs.Other Forms.Total.
M.F.M.F.
Numbers on register at the commencement of the year 19321,2791,1184263973,220
Notified cases added during the year 19332722025548577
Cases coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health (other than by notification) during the year 193249552313140
1,6001,3755044583,937
No. of cases removed from the register during the year 19322812596060660
1,3191,1164443983,277

Table: Showing theNotified GasesofTuberculosisin theQuartersduring1932.

Showing theNotified GasesofTuberculosisin theQuartersduring1932.

1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.The Year.
MalesFemalesTotalMalesFemalesTotalMalesFemalesTotalMalesFemalesTotalMalesFemalesTotal
Respiratory Tuberculosis806514580471276047107524395272202474
Tubercular Meningitis.........123112.........235
Tabes Mesenterica...........................112112
General Tuberculosis..........................................
Other forms of Tuberculosis1911301313269152411516524496
TOtals997617546215670631336449113327250577