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Lambeth 1960
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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I am indebted to Dr. Price, Consultant Chest Physician at St. Francis'
Hospital for the following report on the work of the Chest Clinic during the
year.
Table 1 is an extract of the Annual Return of Chest Clinic work sent to
the Ministry of Health for the year 1960, and refers to the Lambeth (South)
Chest Clinic, situated in St Francis' Hospital.
If the table is compared with that for 1959, it would be seen to show little
change. It confirms the view that the time is not yet ripe for relaxation of any
effort towards eradication of the disease.
TABLE 1
| Respiratory Tuberculosis | Non-Respiratory Tuberculosis | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men | Women | Children | Total | Men | Women | Children | Total | |
| Total cases on Clinic Register at 31.12.1960. | 675 | 500 | 64 | 1239 | 15 | 21 | 7 | 43 |
| Number of cases diagnosed during the year, | 59 | 24 | 6 | 89 | - | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Recovered | 8 | 17 | 1 | 26 | - | - | - | - |
| Deaths | 8 | 4 | - | 12 | 1 | - | - | 1 |
Deaths
There were twelve deaths due to respiratory tuberculosis among Chest
Clinic patients during the year. Most of them were over fifty years and had oldstanding
disease whilst a considerable number had other diseases contributing
towards their death.
The one non-respiratory death occurred in a thirty year old negro, and was
an obscure case of meningitis, ultimately presumed to be tuberculous.