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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Stepney 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS-
| Condition at the time of the last record made during the year to which the return relates | 1933 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Class T.B. minus | Class T.B. plus | Class T.B. minus | Class T.B. plus | Class T.B. minus | Class T.B. plus | Class T.B. minus | Class T.B. plus | Class T.B. minus | Class T.B. plus | Class T.B. minus | Class T.B. plus | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | Total (Class T.B. plus) | Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | Total (Class T.B. plus) | Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | Total (Class T.B. plus) | Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | Total (Class T.B. plus) | Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | Total (Class T.B. plus) | Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | Total (class T.B. plus) | ||||||||||
| (a) Remaining on Dispensary Register on 31st December. | Disease Arrested. | Adults | M. | 14 | 5 | 5 | - | 10 | 15 | 4 | 2 | - | 6 | 9 | 2 | 1 | - | 3 | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| F. | 5 | 4 | 1 | - | 5 | 7 | 4 | - | - | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Children | 10 | - | - | - | - | 10 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 9 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Disease not Arrested. | Adults | M. | 2 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 15 | 6 | 11 | 17 | - | 28 | 4 | 10 | 25 | 1 | 36 | 15 | 11 | 26 | - | 37 | 24 | 8 | 47 | 4 | 59 | 55 | 14 | 54 | 5 | 73 | |
| F. | 2 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 7 | - | 11 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 13 | 15 | 5 | 16 | - | 21 | 21 | 4 | 23 | 2 | 29 | |||
| Children | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | - | 4 | 3 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 4 | - | - | - | - | 18 | - | 1 | - | 1 | |||
| Condition not ascertained during the year | 8 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 2 | - | 8 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 3 | - | 5 | 2 | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | ||||
| Total on Dispensary Register at 31st December | 41 | 22 | 31 | 4 | 57 | 50 | 28 | 31 | 1 | 60 | 42 | 23 | 41 | 2 | 66 | 40 | 18 | 39 | 2 | 59 | 45 | 13 | 66 | 4 | 83 | 94 | 18 | 78 | 7 | 103 | |||
| Discharged as Recovered | Adults | M. | 5 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| F. | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Children | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Lost sight of, or otherwise removed from Dispensary Register | 68 | 42 | 33 | 3 | 78 | 55 | 28 | 27 | 3 | 58 | 38 | 16 | 24 | 2 | 42 | 22 | 8 | 23 | 2 | 33 | 16 | 2 | 17 | 1 | 20 | 9 | 3 | 11 | - | 14 | |||
| Dead | Adults | M | 10 | 14 | 34 | 18 | 66 | 8 | 16 | 22 | 28 | 66 | 12 | 7 | 38 | 11 | 56 | 6 | 3 | 32 | 21 | 56 | 4 | - | 31 | 19 | 50 | 5 | - | 14 | 14 | 28 | |
| F. | 2 | 4 | 15 | 12 | 31 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 8 | 27 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 17 | 4 | - | 10 | 10 | 20 | 1 | - | 4 | - | 4 | |||
| Childre | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | 3 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Total written off Dispensary Register | 92 | 62 | 82 | 35 | 179 | 69 | 49 | 65 | 39 | 153 | 58 | 24 | 70 | 17 | 111 | 31 | 12 | 66 | 28 | 106 | 27 | 2 | 59 | 30 | 91 | 18 | 3 | 29 | 15 | 47 | |||
| Grand Totals | 133 | 84 | 113 | 39 | 236 | 119 | 77 | 96 | 40 | 213 | 100 | 47 | 111 | 19 | 177 | 71 | 30 | 105 | 30 | 165 | 72 15 | 125 | 34 | 174 | 112 | 21 | 107 | 22 | 150 | ||||