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London County Council 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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The following table shows the results of observation of doubtfully tuberculous
cases discharged from observation hospitals:—
Table 46.
| Diagnosis on discharge from observation | For pulmonary tuberculosis | For non-pulmonary tuberculosis | Total | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stay under 4 weeks | Stay over 4 weeks | Stay under 4 weeks | Stay over 4 weeks | ||||||||||||
| Male | Female | Children | Male | Female | Children | Male | Female | Children | Male | Female | Children | Male | Female | Children | |
| Tuberculous | 35 | 31 | 12 | 32 | 40 | 9 | - | - | 6 | - | 1 | 2 | 67 | 72 | 29 |
| Non-tuberculous | 71 | 54 | 19 | 56 | 28 | 80 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 10. | 11 | 89 | 140 | 95 | 201 |
| Total | 106 | 85 | 31 | 88 | 68 | 89 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 10 | 12 | 91 | 207 | 167 | 230 |
The immediate results of the treatment of patients discharged during 1936
and the two preceding years, are indicated in the subjoined tables.
The figures given in the second line under each classification group represent
the percentage of the total number of cases falling within each classification group.
For example, in 1936 there were 701 "A," 336 "B 1," 3,004 "B 2" and 1,518
"B 3" cases discharged during the year. Of these numbers, 335 or 47.8 per cent.
group "A," 135 or 40.2 per cent. group "B 1," 174 or 5.8 per cent. group "B 2"
and 4 or 0.3 per cent. group "B 3" cases were discharged as quiescent, totalling
648 quiescent cases, or 11.7 per cent. of the total number (5,559) of pulmonary cases
discharged during 1936.
Table 47.—Immediate results of treatment. Adults.
| Classification | Quiescent | Not quiescent | Died in institution | Total | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Years | Years | Years | Years | |||||||||
| 1934 | 1935. | 1936 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | |
| a. Number | 286 | 328 | 335 | 395 | 364 | 343 | 40 | 25 | 23 | 721 | 717 | 701 |
| Percentage | 39.7 | 45.7 | 47.8 | 54.8 | 50.8 | 48.9 | 5.5 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| b1. Number | 105 | 103 | 135 | 133 | 183 | 201 | 2 | 2 | - | 240 | 288 | 336 |
| Percentage | 43.8 | 35.8 | 40.2 | 55.4 | 63.5 | 59.8 | 0.8 | 0.7 | — | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| b2. Number | 191 | 179 | 174 | 2,558 | 2,601 | 2,716 | 110 | 63 | 114 | 2,859 | 2,843 | 3,004 |
| Percentage | 6.7 | 6.3 | 5.8 | 89.5 | 91.5 | 90.4 | 3.8 | 2.2 | 3.8 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| b3. Number | 3 | - | 4 | 787 | 593 | 605 | 1,024 | 943 | 909 | 1,814 | 1,536 | 1,518 |
| Percentage | 0.2 | — | 0.3 | 43.4 | 38.6 | 39.8 | 56.4 | 61.4 | 59.9 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Total Pulmonary | 585 | 610 | 648 | 3,873 | 3,741 | 3,865 | 1,176 | 1,033 | 1,046 | 5,634 | 5,384 | 5,559 |
| Percentage | 10.4 | 11.3 | 11.7 | 68.7 | 69.5 | 69.5 | 20.9 | 19.2 | 18.8 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Non-pulmon-arv | 219 | 181 | 210 | 239 | 252 | 259 | 60 | 43 | 47 | 518 | 476 | 516 |
| Percentage | 42.3 | 38.1 | 40.7 | 46.1 | 52.9 | 50.2 | 11.6 | 90 | 9.1 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Grand total | 804 | 791 | 858 | 4,112 | 3,993 | 4,124 | 1,236 | 1,076 | 1,093 | 6,152 | 5,860 | 6,075 |
| Percentage | 13.1 | 13.5 | 14.1 | 66.8 | 68.2 | 67.9 | 20.1 | 18.3 | 18.0 | 100 | 100 | 100 |