Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Tuberculosis Dispensaries—Analysis of Returns, Jan.-Dec., 1926.
| Borough and Dispensary. | On Dispensary Register, 1-1-26. | Transferred during 1026 from other areas and lost sight of cases returned | Examined for first time during 1926. (a) New eases excluding contacts. (b) Contacts (printed in italics). | Total number (including contacts) under dispensary supervision during 1926. | Removed from Dispensary Register during 1926. | On Dispensary Register on 31-12-26. | Total attendances. | Visits to homes for dispensary purposes by | No. of specimens of sputum examined. | |||||||||||||
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| Diagnosis completed. | Under observation. | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | Doubtfully Tuberculous. | Non-1 Tuberculous. | Total. | (o) Cured. (») Diagnosis not confirmed or non-T.B. (printec in italics) | («) Transferred to other areas or lost sight of. «>) Died (printed in italics). | Diagnosis completed. | Under Observation. | ||||||||||||
| Adults. | Children. | Adults. | Children. | Adults. | Children. | Adults. | Children. | Adults. | Children. | Tuberculosis Officer. | Dispensary Nurse. | |||||||||||
| Battersea | 843 | 301 | 11 | 147 | 6 | 15 | 23 | 94 | 73 | 171 | 131 | 427 | 233 | 2,027 | 39 | 90 | 876 | 243 | 4,686 | 142 | 5,294 | 1,504 |
| Bermondsey | 1,221 | 12 | 36 | 116 | 5 | 6 | 27 | 131 | 58 | 68 | 61 | 321 | 151 | 2,117 | 82 | 95 | 1,156 | 42 | 4,680 | 119 | 3,913 | 968 |
| BethnalGreen | 856 | 13 | 7 | 89 | 1 | 16 | 13 | 33 | 11 | 251 | 106 | 389 | 131 | 1,604 | 9 | 313 | 612 | 10 | 4,027 | 153 | 1,587 | 772 |
| Camberwell | 2,003 | 54 | 11 | 256 | 8 | 48 | 33 | 176 | 28 | 473 | 460 | 953 | 529 | 4,225 | 101 | 158 | 2,003 | 45 | 8,574 | 1,203 | 6,310 | 1,930 |
| 1 | 923 | 192 | 30 | 3,434 | 41 | 3,531 | 374 | |||||||||||||||
| Chelsea | 443 | 17 | 10 | 41 | 2 | 53 | 5 | 105 | 121 | 199 | 129 | 1 | 32 | |||||||||
| 729 | 60 | 3,777 | 132 | 4,515 | 1,179 | |||||||||||||||||
| Deptford | 918 | 32 | 12 | 94 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 175 | 125 | 38 | 114 | 315 | 253 | 1,676 | 121 | 122 | ||||||
| 432 | 27 | 4,387 | 409 | 2,799 | 408 | |||||||||||||||||
| Finsbury | 426 | 10 | 5 | 40 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 70 | 42 | 118 | 60 | 850 | 9 | 19 | ||||||
| Ftilham | 1,125 | 43 | 15 | 150 | 15 | 14 | 34 | 72 | 52 | 215 | 248 | 451 | 349 | 2,388 | 42 | 136 | 1,117 | 54 | 5,156 | 411 | 5,355 | 810 |
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| Greenwich | 529 | 16 | 9 | 59 | 19 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 9 | 114 | 76 | 187 | 117 | 1,343 | 16 | 607 | 21 | 6,034 | 191 | 4,404 | 148 | |
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| Hackney | 1,764 | 22 | 29 | 160 | 5 | 9 | 24 | 61 | 18 | 253 | 191 | 483 | 238 | 2,987 | 11 | 455 | 1,188 | 20 | 7,257 | 260 | 3,673 | 1,087 |
| Hammersmith | 802 | 22 | 11 | 125 | 3 | 22 | 23 | 13 | 3 | 133 | 94 | 293 | 123 | 1,344 | 65 | 66 | 660 | 26 | 2,850 | 188 | 3,942 | 513 |
| Hampstead | 200 | 10 | 77 | 52 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 43 | 41 | 102 | 48 | 549 | 36 | 61 | 225 | 23 | 1,154 | 1,308 | 301 | ||
| Holborn | 292 | 1 | 5 | 30 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 44 | 17 | 425 | 1 | 75 | 194 | 1 | 872 | 73 | 1,140 | 176 |
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| Islington | 1,168 | 9 | 34 | 268 | 5 | 28 | 20 | 36 | 15 | 260 | 90 | 592 | 130 | 2,410 | 47 | 120 | 1,187 | 62 | 10,038 | 588 | 2,316 | 968 |