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 Stepney]
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Supplementary Annual Return showing in summary form (a) the condition at the end of 1938 of all patients remaining on the Dispensary Register; and (b) the reasons for the removal of all cases written off the Register.
| Condition at the time of the last record made during the year to which the return relates. | Previous to 1928 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Bones and Joints | Abdominal | Other Organs | Peripheral Glands | Total | Bones and Joints | Abdominal | Other Organs | Peripheral Glands | Total | Bones and Joints | Abdominal | Other Organs | Peripheral Glands | Total | Bones and Joints | Abdominal , | Other Organs | Peripheral Glands | Total | Bones and Joints | Abdominal | OtherOrgans | Peripheral Glands | Total | Bones and Joints | Abdominal | Other Organs | Peripheral Glands | Total | ||||
| Disease Arrested | Adults | M. | 2 | - | 1 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | |
| F. | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | |||
| Children | 3 | - | - | 1 | 4 | 3 | - | 1 | 3 | 7 | 2 | - | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 15 | |||
| Disease not Arrested | Adults | M. | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| F. | 1 | - | 2 | - | 3 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | |||
| Children | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | |||
| Condition not ascertained during the year | 3 | - | 3 | 2 | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 2 | 4 | |||
| Total on Dispensary Register at 31st December | 13 | - | 8 | 4 | 25 | 4 | - | 2 | 4 | 10 | 5 | - | 1 | 3 | 9 | 7 | i | 5 | 3 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 20 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 25 | |||
| Transferred to Pulmonary | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | |||
| Discharged as Recovered | Adults | M. | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 2 | - | - | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | |
| F. | 1 | - | 1 | 4 | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | 3 | 4 | |||
| Children | 20 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 47 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 22 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 15 | 2 | 2 | - | 11 | 15 | 3 | 3 | - | 7 | 13 | 3 | - | - | 3 | 6 | ||||
| Lost sight of, or otherwise removed from Dispensary Register | 22 | 7 | 11 | 30 | 70 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 26 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 30 | 15 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 40 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 33 | |||
| Dead | Adults | M. | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| F. | - | - | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Children | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | 5 | |||
| Total written off Dispensary Register | 46 | 16 | 20 | 59 | 141 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 20 | 40 | 17 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 49 | 12 | 6 | 11 | 25 | 54 | 21 | 7 | 11 | 22 | 61 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 24 | 49 | |||
| Grand Totals of (a) and (b) excluding those transferred to Pulmonary). | 59 | 16 | 28 | 63 | 166 | 16 | 2 | 8 | 24 | 50 | 22 | 7 | 10 | 19 | 58 | 19 | 7 | 16 | 28 | 70 | 26 8 | 14 | 33 | 81 | 25 | 8 | 8 | 33 | 74 | ||||