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Poplar 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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| Diagnosis. | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | Total. | Grand Total. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adults. | Children. | Adults. | Children. | Adults. | Children. | |||||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |||||
| A.—New Cases examined during the year (excluding | ||||||||||||||||
| («) Definitely Tuberculous | 66 | 51 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 78 | 65 | 15 | 16 | 174 | |||
| (b) Diagnosis not completed | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 20 | |||
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 118 | 129 | 96 | 94 | 437 | ||||
| B..—Contacts examined during the year:— | ||||||||||||||||
| (a) D finitely Tuberculous | 16 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | — | 2 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 30 | |||
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | ||||
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 19 | 33 | 50 | 67 | 169 | |||||
| C.—Cases written off the Dispensary Register as:— | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 9 | 1 | — | 5 | ||||
| (b) Non-Tuberculous (including any such cases previously diagnosed and entered on the Dispensary Register as Tuberculous) | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | — | — | 145 | 174 | 158 | 170 | 647 | |||
| D.—Number of Cases on Dispensary Register on | ||||||||||||||||
| (a) Definitely Tuberculous | 328 | 248 | 26 | 53 | 37 | 45 | 69 | 61 | 365 | 293 | 95 | 114 | 867 | |||
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 5 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 25 | ||||
| 1. Number of Cases on Dispensary Register on January 1st | 821 | 2. Number of Cases transferred from other areas, and Cases returned after discharge under Head 3 in previous years | 71 | |||||||||||||
| 3. Number of Cases transferred to other areas, Cases not desiring further assistance under the scheme, and Cases "lost sight of" | 58 | 4. Cases written off during the year as Dead (all causes) .. | 128 | |||||||||||||
| 5. Number of attendances at the Dispensary (including Contacts).. | 5,364 | 6. Number of Insured Persons under Domiciliary Treatment on December 31st | 246 | |||||||||||||
| 7. Number of Consultations with Medical Practitioners:— | ||||||||||||||||
| (a) Personal | 11 | 8. Number of visits by Tuberculosis Officers to homes (including personal Consultations) | ||||||||||||||
| 349 | 229 | |||||||||||||||
| 9. Number of visits by Health Visitors to homes for Dispensary purposes | 7,051 | 10. Number of:— | ||||||||||||||
| (a) Specimens of Sputa examined | P.H. | 438 | ||||||||||||||
| Dispensary | 1,202 | |||||||||||||||
| Screen .. | 73 | |||||||||||||||
| Films | 21 | |||||||||||||||
| 11. Number of "Recovered" Cases restored to Dispensary Register, and included in A (a) and A (b) above | 12. Number of ''T.B. plus'' Cases on Dispensary Register on December 31st | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | 477 | |||||||||||||||