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Barking 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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The incidence of tuberculosis amongst cases attending the Tuberculosis Dispensary is shown from the following table:—
| Insured | Not Insured | Ex-Service Men | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | M | 70 | 66 | 58 |
| F | 34 | 90 | — | |
| Non-Pulmonary | M | 5 | 37 | 1 |
| 27 | — | |||
Five hundred and four patients made 1,426 attendances at
the dispensary during the year for the purpose of medical
examination, 179 being new cases. Of new cases attending
during the year, 50 were notified as suffering from tuberculosis.
At the end of the year 342 cases on the Dispensary Register
Mere definitely diagnosed as suffering from tuberculosis, whilst in
162 C;ises the diagnosis still remained in abeyance.
MEMORANDUM 37/T (TUBERCULOSIS).
In accordance with the requirements of the above Memorandum,
all patients on the Dispensary Register at the end of the
year were classified in the following manner :—
Pulmonary Cases.—These cases were divided into two classes,
viz.( T.B. Minus and T.B. Plus, the former class including those
in whom tubercle bacilli had never been demonstrated in the
sputum, and the latter class those in whom tubercle bacilli had
been tound. The latter class (T.B. Plus) was further sub-divided
into three groups as follows:—
Group 1.—Cases with slight constitutional disturbance, if
viz., those cases with no marked acceleration of pulse nor
elation of temperature except of very transient duration.
Group 2.—All cases which could not be placed in Groups
1 and 3.