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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 1913

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

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162 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

Table: TABLE LXXXI.SITE OF LESION IN TUBERCULOUS CASES.

TABLE LXXXI.

SITE OF LESION IN TUBERCULOUS CASES.

Age Period.Non-Pulmonary.Total.
Glands.Joints and Bones.Abdominal.Others.Total Non-Pulmonary.Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Under 1 year...1......1...1
1 and under 2 years1......23...3
2 and under 5 years631111516
5 and under 10 years9431172542
10 and under 15 years564...152944
15 and under 20 years1.........11920
20 and under 25 years...2......24042
25 and under 35 years21...148488
35 and under 45 years2......135659
45 and under 65 years...............2828
65 years and upwards.....................
Total26178657286343

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Treatment of Tuberculous Patients.
24 of the 343 cases were in a quiescent stage of the disease and
required no treatment. They were kept under observation, attending
periodically for examination.
Of the remaining 319, 212 received the whole of their treatment
during the year at the Dispensaries and 107 receiving treatment
elsewhere in addition to dispensary treatment.
Of these 39 were treated in Sanatoria, 21 in Hospitals, 12 in
Poor Law Infirmaries, and 39 by their own Medical practitioners,
Four of the patients who went to Sanatoria, were afterwards
treated by their own medical practitioners, and figure twice in the
above list.