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Islington 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington Borough]
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Islington Chest Clinic, Whittington Hospital
St. Pancras Chest Clinic, Margaret Street, St. Marylebone
Mass X/Ray Unit of the North-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, 32 Drayton
Park, N. 5
The Borough is well and conveniently served by the above centres to which patients
may be referred, or where persons may attend for examination.
Cases on Chest Clinic Registers
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Total | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adults | Children | Adults | Children | Adults | Children | |||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Number of definite cases of tuberculosis on Chest Clinic Register as at 31st December 1962: | ||||||||||||
| Islington C. C. | 1,156 | 780 | 50 | 55 | 58 | 79 | 5 | 10 | 1,214 | 859 | 55 | 65 |
| St. Pancras C. C. | 122 | 68 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 6 | – | – | 127 | 74 | 9 | 12 |
| 1,278 | 848 | 59 | 67 | 63 | 85 | 5 | 10 | 1,341 | 933 | 64 | 77 | |
| Grand Total | 2,415 | |||||||||||
The corresponding figures for previous years are:-
1961 2,450
1960 2,497
1959 2,564
1958 2,735
1957 2,818
1956 2,772
1955 2,751
1954 2,851
1953 2,738
1952 2,575
1951 2,443
1950 12,238