Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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Appointment of Assistant Tuberculosis Officer (for visiting
the Homes of Patients) in connection with the Inner
Districts of the Borough.
Dr. A. J. G. McLaughlin has continued in office as Assistant
Tuberculosis Officer (for visiting the homes of the patients) in connection
with the Branch Tuberculosis Dispensary, St. Thomas's
Hospital, for the Inner Districts of the Borough.
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 (6) tuberculosis (all forms) as follows:-
(1) Death-rates (corrected deaths per 1,000 population):—
Years. | Pulmonary 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 | 202 | 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 | 1.2 | 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 | 08 | 1.07 |
1923 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.9 |
1924 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 1.03 |
1925 | 087 | 1.07 | 1.01 | 1.26 | 0.78 | 0.95 |
Averages (13 years) | 1.14 | 1.47 | 1.41 | 1.82 | 0.96 | 1. 2 |