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Islington 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington Borough]
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101 [1938
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.
Return showing the Work of the North Islington Tuberculosis Dispensary for the Year 1938.
| 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 tacts):- | ||||||||||||||
| (a) Definitely tuberculous | 96 | 69 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 105 | 75 | 18 | 12 | 210 | |
| (b) Diagnosis not completed | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| (c) Non-tuberculous | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 131 | 125 | 12 | 11 | 279 | |
| B.—Contacts examined during the year:— | ||||||||||||||
| (a) Definitely tuberculous | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 23 | |
| (b) Diagnosis not completed | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| (c) Non-tuberculous | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 67 | 103 | 63 | 81 | 314 | |
| C.—Cases written off the Dispensary Register as:— | ||||||||||||||
| (a) Recovered | 5 | 5 | 1 | — | — | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 19 | |
| (b) Non-tuberculous (including any such cases previously diagnosed and entered on the Dispensary Register as tuberculous) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 198 | 228 | 75 | 92 | 593 | |
| D.—Number of Cases on Dispensary Register on Dec ember 31st:- | ||||||||||||||
| (a) Definitely tuberculous | 315 | 307 | 34 | 23 | 46 | 46 | 39 | 29 | 361 | 353 | 73 | 52 | 839 | |
| (b) Diagnosis not completed | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 1. Number of cases on Dispensary Register on January 1st | 830 | 2. Number of cases transferred from other areas and cases returned after discharge under Head 3 in previous years | 63 | |||||||||||
| 3. Number of cases transferred to other areas, cases not desiring further assistance under the tuberculosis scheme, and cases "lost sight of" | 178 | |||||||||||||
| 4. Cases written off during the year as Dead (all causes) | 90 | |||||||||||||
| 6. Number of Insured Persons under Domiciliary Treatment on the 31st December | 457 | |||||||||||||
| 5. Number of attendances at the Dispensary (including Contacts) | 5,062 | |||||||||||||
| 7. Number of consultations with medical practitioners:— | 8. Number of visits by Tuberculosis Officers to homes (including personal consultations) | 268 | ||||||||||||
| (a) Personal | 22 | |||||||||||||
| (b) Other | 550 | |||||||||||||
| 10. Number of:— | ||||||||||||||
| 9. Number of visits by Dispensary Nurses to homes for Dispensary purposes | 1,241 | |||||||||||||
| (a) Specimens of sputum, etc., examined | 315 | |||||||||||||
| Municipal Tuberculosis Visiting Nurse | 1,620 | (b) X-ray examinations made in connection with Dispensary work | 471 | |||||||||||
| 11. Number of "Recovered" cases restored to Dispensary Register, and included in A(a) and A(b) above | ||||||||||||||
| 12. Number of "T.B. Plus" cases on Dispensary Register on December 31st | 611 | |||||||||||||