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Islington 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington Borough]
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1937
TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARIES.
Number of Dispensaries for the treatment of Tuberculosis (excluding centres used only
for special forms of treatment) provided by the Council—One in the Northern part of the Borough
and one in the Southern part of the Borough.
| Diagnosis. | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | Total. | Grand Total. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adults. | Children. | Adults. | Children. | Adults. | Children. | ||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | ||
| A.—New Cases examined during the year (excluding con- | |||||||||||||
| (a) Definitely tuberculous | 76 | 67 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 84 | 77 | 8 | 6 | 175 | ||
| (c) Non-tuberculous | 118 | 124 | 8 | 15 | 265 | ||||||||
| B.—Contacts examined during the year:— | |||||||||||||
| 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 20 | ||||
| (b) Diagnosis not completed | |||||||||||||
| 64 | 112 | 77 | 76 | 329 | |||||||||
| C.—Cases written off the Dispensary Register as :— | |||||||||||||
| 4 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 21 | |||
| Register as tuberculous) | 85 | 91 | 594 | ||||||||||
| D.—Number of Cases on Dispensary Register on December 31st :— | |||||||||||||
| 328 | 296 | 24 | 18 | 39 | 56 | 33 | 36 | 367 | 352 | 57 | 54 | 830 | |
RETURN SHOWING THE WORK OF THE NORTH ISLINGTON TUBERCULOSIS
| 1. Number of cases on Dispensary Register on January 1st | 812 | ||
| 2. Number of cases transferred from other areas and cases returned after discharge under Head 3 in previous years | 83 | ||
| 3. Number of cases transferred to other areas, cases not desiring further assistance under the tuberculosis scheme, and cases " lost sight of " | 141 | ||
| 4. Cases written off during the year as Dead (all causes) | 98 | ||
| 6. Number of Insured Persons under Domiciliary Treatment on the 31st December | 481 | ||
| 5. Number of attendances at the Dispensary (including Contacts) | 4,934 | ||
| 7. Number of consultations with medical practitioners :— (à) Personal. (á) Other | 22 615 | 8. Number of visits by Tuberculosis Officers to homes (including personal consultations) | 287 |
| 9. Number of visits by Dispensary Nurses to homes for Dispensary purposes Municipal Tuberculosis Visiting Nurse | 1,215 1,748 | 10. Number of :— (a) Specimens of sputum, etc., examined (b X-ray examinations made in connection with Dispensary work | 327 440 |
| 11. Number of "Recovered" cases restored to Dispensary Register, and included in A(a) and A(b) above | 2 | ||
| 12. Number of " T.B. Plus " cases on Dispensary Register on December 31st | 421 |