London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Crayford 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Crayford]
This page requires JavaScript
Tuberculosis.
| Age periods | New Cases | Deaths | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Respiratory | Non-Respiratory | Respiratory | Non-Respiratory | |||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| 15 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | —_ | 1 | — |
| 25 | 2 | 3 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| 35 | — | 3 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | — |
| 45 | 2 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| 55 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 65 and upwards | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Totals | 13 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Chest Clinics.
At West Hill Hospital, Dartford, and 65, Bexley Road,
Erith.
Housing Applicants.
Special consideration is given to cases put forward by
the Medical Officer of Health involving tuberculosis or other
physical disability in the applicants' families and such cases
are considered outside the normal points scheme.
Cases investigated during the year—44.
Applicants recommended for rehousing—8
No. of families granted houses on account of Tuberculosis—6.
TUBERCULOSIS AFTER-CARE.
It was brought to my notice that the question of appointing
a separate Tuberculosis Care Committee for the
Crayford District had been raised. The area was then being
served by the Erith and Dartford Committees.
A Meeting was convened of Organisations interested
in welfare work by the Chairman of the Crayford Urban District
Council, as a result of which the Crayford District Tuberculosis
Care Committee was formed in Association with the
21