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St Pancras 1922

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: The number of deaths of tuberculous patients who were not notified before death or only at the time of death was as follows:—

The number of deaths of tuberculous patients who were not notified before death or only at the time of death was as follows:—

No. of cases.Percentage of all tuberculosis deaths.
Pulmonary5822.6
Non-pulmonary2950.0
All forms8727.6

Table: Allowing for this correction, the number of tuberculosis deaths in which there was failure to notify before death was as follows:—

Allowing for this correction, the number of tuberculosis deaths in which there was failure to notify before death was as follows:—

No. of cases.Percentage of all tuberculosis deaths.
Pulmonary3212 5
Non-pulmonary915.5
All forms4113.0

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Home Visiting.
The home visiting of notified and other cases of tuberculosis, and contacts, has been
carried out by certain of the women inspectors working from the Town Hall, and by the nurses
at the tuberculosis dispensaries. From the Town Hall, Miss Blaxland and Miss Parnell are
responsible for tuberculosis home visiting, to which they give part of their time. There is one
nurse at the St. Pancras Dispensary (and its branch) who devotes to home visiting such of her
time as is available for that purpose, and one nurse (part-time so far as St. Pancras is concerned)
at the University College Hospital Dispensary.
The visiting (and certain other) work carried out in the borough in connection with
tuberculosis during 1922 was as follows:—
Home visits* by—
Tuberculosis officers 210
Women inspectors—
(а) First visits to notified cases 513
(b) Subsequent visits 2.525
Tuberculosis dispensary nurses 1,175
4,423
Attendance of women inspectors at dispensaries 473
Other visits of women inspectors for various purposes 297
No. of cases in which disinfection was carried out 74
Tuberculosis Dispensaries.
The staff at the St. Pancras Dispensary (39, Oakley Square, and branch at 132, Maiden
Road), which serves the part of the Borough lying north of Euston Road (population in 1921,
169,276), consists of the Borough Council's tuberculosis officer, one tuberculosis nurse, and one
(woman) clerical and general assistant, all full-time officers. In that part of the borough (Wards
* Exclusive of visits made by members of the Interim Tuberculosis Care Committee.
(7947)
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