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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Wandsworth 1912

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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130 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

Table: TABLE LXIV.PRIVATE CASES.

TABLE LXIV.

PRIVATE CASES.

YearCases reported.Cases died.Removed.Recovered.No. inquiries.Cases living at end of 1912.
1904190519061907190819091910191 11912
190410150811...............29561
190582...3342...............29491
190664......305...1.........1279...
190740.........17...............22...1...
190869............25611...28...53
190940...............155518443
191040..................77112175
191133.....................943...512
1912439........................1272310...279
Total90850413525252213171331663146304

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One of the cases notified in 1910 and one in 1911 became
Poor Law cases and have been transferred to that Table.
The total number of cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis alive at
the close of the year was 889, 356 Poor Law cases, 229 Hospital
cases, and 304 private cases.
Table LXV. is a combined Table and shows the total number of
cases notified since 1904, with the number of deaths in each year.
In all 2,405 cases have been notified, and of these 948 or
39.4 per cent. died, 471 or I9.6 per cent. have removed, 49 or 2"o
per cent. are stated to have recovered, in 48 or 2.0 per cent. no
inquiries were made, while 889 or 37 per cent. are still on the Register.