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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 1926
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The two following Tables show in summary form the condition
of all patients at the end of 1926, arranged according
to the years in which each came under public medical treatment.
TABLE XXIII.
| (A.) Pulmonary Tuberculosis. | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Condition at the time of the last record made. | Previous to 1926. | 1926. | |||||||||||
| Class T.B. Minus. | Class T.B. Plus. | Class T.B. Minus. | Class T.B. Plus. | ||||||||||
| Group 1. | Group 2. | Group 3. | Total. | Group 1. | Group 2. | Group 3. | Total. | ||||||
| ALIVE. | Discharged as cured. | Adults. | M. | 345 | 51 | 2 | - | 53 | - | - | - | - | - |
| F. | 392 | 40 | 2 | — | 42 | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Children. | M. F. | 47 46 | 1 3 | 1 1 | — | 2 4 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| Disease arrested. | Adults. | M. | 88 | 76 | 24 | 2 | 102 | - | 1 | — | — | 1 | |
| F. | 53 | 38 | 3 | — | 41 | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Children. | M. | 11 | 2 | — | — | 2 | - | — | — | — | — | ||
| F. | 14 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Disease not arrested. | | Adults. | M. | 28 | 55 | 119 | 36 | 210 | 17 | 38 | 54 | 9 | 101 | |
| F. | 38 | 25 | 88 | 29 | 142 | 14 | 29 | 35 | 17 | 81 | |||
| Children. | M. | 4 | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | ||
| F. | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | — | — | — | — | |||
| Lost sight of or otherwise removed from register. | 483 | 181 | 215 | 46 | 442 | 6 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 24 | |||
| Dead. | Adults. | M. | 154 | 80 | 286 | 467 | 833 | 2 | — | 2 | 21 | 23 | |
| F. | 154 | 56 | 182 | 365 | 603 | — | 1 | 10 | 11 | 22 | |||
| Children. | M. | 9 | 1 | 2 | — | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| F. | 13 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 1 | — | 1 | — | 1 | |||
| Total | 1883 | 614 | 931 | 949 | 2494 | 44 | 85 | 109 | 60 | 254 | |||