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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
133
The whole of the work in connection with Pulmonary Tuberculosis
has been carried out most efficiently by the female Sanitary
Inspectors, and as will be noted, has added considerably to their
work during the year. This work has increased to such an extent
as to lessen the number of visits done by these Inspectors in the
visiting of infants, and to a smaller extent has caused a decrease
in the number of inspections of factories and workshops.
The total number of visits made was 2,259, 211 in Clapham
North, 299 in Clapham South, 123 in Putney, 530 in Streatham,
383 in Tooting, and 713 in Wandsworth, compared with 938 in
1911.
During the year 51 sputum bottles have been supplied, and
four were returned after the death of the patient. In 25 cases
the patient already had one.
Of the 786 cases visited by the Inspectors, in 26 the information
obtained was so indefinite that it was impossible to tabulate it,
in the majority of cases no family history being known. In 26
cases no inquiries were made.
22 cases were notified from the Workhouse, 14 from Tooting
Bec Asylum, one from H.M. Prison, one from the Middlesex
Asylum, one from St. Anne's Home, eight from common lodging
houses, two were homeless, in two cases wrong addresses were
given, 19 had removed, in 18 the patients were either lodgers or
domestic servants and the occupier of the house could give no
information, three were cases of mistaken diagnosis, and in only
two instances the Inspectors were refused information.
Seven cases were notified outside the Borough and visited
on their coming into the District, two were notified in Battersea,
two in Croydon, one in Camberwell, one in Fulham, and one in
Kensington.
One case notified outside the Borough was discharged from
the Union Infirmary to an address in Clapham.