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Tuberculosis Officer for visiting the homes of the patients in the Inner
Districts—a duty (important duty) that has not hitherto been systematically
carried out. Dr. F. B. Hobbs was duly appointed to the office
by the Council as from January ist. 1924 and, owing to resignation,
was succeeded by Dr. A. J. G. Mclaughlin, who was approved by the
tlie Council. Both appointments were afterwards approved by the
Ministry of Health.
Results from the Working of the Lambeth Scheme.
The Lambeth Municipal Tuberculosis Dispensaries Scheme still
continues to justify its inauguration by the Council on 3rd October,
1912 (the Scheme being approved by the then Local Government
Board in 1913), as shown by statistics; and it is interesting, therefore,
to place on record the completed results up to date, as shown thereby
for the whole of the Borough of Lambeth, since the inauguration of
the Lambeth Scheme, in the form of (1) death-rates, and (2) incidence
rates from tuberculosis in the two classifications of (a) pulmonary
tuberculosis and (b) tuberculosis (all forms) as follows : —
(i) Death-rates (corrected deaths per i,ooo population):—
Borough
Inner
Districts
Outer
Districts.
V ears.
Pulmo
nary
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis
(all
forms).
Pulmonary
Tuberculosis
'Tuberculosis
(all
forms).
Pulmonary
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis
(all
forms).
1913
1.2
1.6
1.6
2.1
0.9
1.2
1914
1.3
1.7
1.5
1.9
1.2
1.5
1915
1.4
1.8
1.9
2.3
1.2
1.4
1916
1.4
1.7
1.6
2.1
1.2
1 .5
1917
1.5
2.02
2.03
2.7
1.1
1.5
1918
1.5
2.05
1.9
2.6
1.2
1.7
1919
1.2
1.5
1.5
1.8
0.9
1.2
1920
1.01
l.2
1.2
1.5
0.9
1.08
1921
0.9
1.1
1.2
1.4
0.7
0.9
1922
0.9
1.2
1.1
1.4
0.8
1.07
1923
0.8
1.1
0.9
1.2
0.8
0.9
Averages
(11 years)
1.2
1.5
1.5
1.9
l.0
1.3
1924
0 9
1.1
1.0
1.3
0.8
1.03