Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report (abridged) on the Health of the Borough for the year 1942
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TUBERCULOSIS.
Tubcrouloals Dispensary.
Number of definite cases of tuberculosis on the Dispensary
Registers at the end of the year:-
Pulmonary
Adults Children
M. F. M. F.
348 178 19 12
Non-Pulmonary
Adults Children
M. F. M.F
39 23 25 18
Totals
Adults Children
M. F. M. F.
387 201 44 30
Total attendances 3,293
X-Ray examinations 618
A.P. Refills 1,399
Visits by Tuberculosis
Visitors 3,687.
Sputum examinations 478Finsen
Light Treatments'
Admissions to
Institutions 312.
NEW CASES
Non-
pulmonary Pulmonary
M F M F
DEATHS
Non-
Pulmonary Pulmonary
M F M F
Primary notifications
Deaths reports
Transfers
Other sources
I36 59 15 14
11 8 4 6
42 16 2 1
2
Ages 0
1 -
5
15
25
35
45
55
65 and
upwards
TOTALS
1
1
5
25
55
34
26
30
14
191
15
2
1
30
19
10
11
4
6
83
4
4
5
3
1
1
2
1
21
-
6
3
5
3
1
2
1
21
1
-
-
8
11
13
20
26
13
92
-
1
-
10
9
8
6
3
5
42
-
2
-
-
1
1
1
5
-
2
-
1
1
1
1
-
2
8
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