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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
St Pancras 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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(a) THE VOLUNTARY NOTIFICATION OF CONSUMPTION.
In the Annual Report for 1905 were set out the forms and procedure
adopted for carrying out the voluntary notification of consumption or
pulmonary tuberculosis.
The results of the year's work during 1907 are set out in the tabular
statements that follow.
During the past year the action taken with regard to pulmonary phthisis tells its own story in the following table:—
| Consumption. | W. | S. | E. | N. | Total. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sputum examined | 9 | 1 | 12 | 11 | 33 | |
| Cases voluntarily notified | 99 | 102 | 77 | 77 | 355 | |
| Advice papers sent | 88 | 87 | 54 | 73 | 302 | |
| Inquiry made | 88 | 92 | 54 | 74 | 308 | |
| By request | Segregation provided* | 40 | 62 | 34 | 20 | 156 |
| Disinfection done‡ | 10 | 8 | 4 | 29 | ||
| Sanitary Inspection made | — | — | — | — | — | |
* Segregation provided at the Workhouse Infirmary 148 cases, and
Hospitals, &c., 8 cases.
‡ Disinfection carried out after removal to Infirmary or other place, or after
death at home.
CONSUMPTION NOTIFICATIONS.
| Total number notified | 355 |
| (1) Number notified by Medical Officers of Infirmaries (North and South) and of Workhouse | 194 |
| (2) Number notified by District Medical Officers— | |
| Public cases | 24 |
| Private cases | — |
| (3) Number notified by staff of Mount Vernon Hospital, Out-patients' department— | |
| Public cases | 72 |
| Private cases | — |
| (4) Number notified by staffs of other hospitals— | |
| Public cases | |
| Private cases | — |
| (5) Number notified by private practitioners | 55 |
| (6) Notified by persons other than medical practitioners | |
| 355 |