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TUBERCULOSIS.
The proportions of deaths in institutions observed among the residents of the Wards
during the past three years are compared below. The figure for Lancaster Gate, West, Ward
(100 per cent.) is accounted for by the fact that the two deaths allocated to that Ward both
occurred in institutions.
Queen's Harrow Maida Lancaster Gate, Hyde
Park. Road. Vale. Westbourne. Church. West. East. Park.
1914 56.5 38.8 52.4 52.2 54.0 100 0 — 44.4
1913 47.8 53.5 55.0 50.0 53.8 14.3 66.6 12.5
1912 27.2 46.4 46.6 68.4 67.7 33.3 — 62.7
Treatment of Tuberculosis.
Insured Persons.—Last year 113 applications for sanatorium benefit were made to the
London Insurance Committee by residents of the Borough, that total including repeat applications
from 4 persons who had previously received sanatorium treatment during the year, so
that the nett number of patients was 109. The results of the applications were as follow:—
Total applications put in 113
by men 77
by women 36
Applicants found ineligible 7
Applications abandoned 6
Applications remaining incomplete 9
by reason of removal from Borough 1
owing to death of applicant 4
carried forward to 1915 4
Applications granted 91
Form of benefit granted—
Admission to sanatorium 69 Domiciliary treatment. 7
,, hospital 15
The institutions to which the patients were sent are set out below:—
Hospitals. Sanatoria.
Brompton 8† Downs 37
Metropolitan 4‡ Winchmore Hill . 26
City Road 1 Other 6
Victoria Park 1
St. George's Home 1
Four patients died in the institutions to which they had been sent (equal to a fatality of
4.7 per 100 admissions), 53 were discharged after treatment, and 23 were still under treatment
at the end of the year. Seventeen patients admitted during 1913 were also discharged from
sanatoria, &c., during the past year, making, with the above-mentioned 53, a total of 70
completed cases. The subsequent history of these is hereunder briefly given:—
Died 6 Known to the Department, and state of
Removed from original address and health reported at the close of the year
lost sight of 18 to be
Marked off register as "disease arrested" 3 Good 11
Marked off register as "error" 1 Fairly good 13
Reported to have enlisted 1 . Indifferent 11
Admitted to other institutions
(Infirmary, &c.) 6
* The 91 applications granted referred to 87 patients,
†Three patients subsequently transferred to the Frimley' Sanatorium.
‡Two patients found to be non-tuberculous.