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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

Woolwich 1907

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]

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Table: Number of Patients Discharged in each year who were (a)Alive, (b) at Work, Seeking Work, or performing their ordinary duties in January of each of the under-mentioned Years.

Number of Patients Discharged in each year who were (a)Alive, (b) at Work, Seeking Work, or performing their ordinary duties in January of each of the under-mentioned Years.

Year.Number Discharged.Dead Jan., 1908.1904.1905.1906.1907.1908.
ABABABABAB
1903111...1.....................
1904115......87544422
1905109............131110965
1906295..................29222116
1907375........................3222
94251...97181543356145

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N.B.—Some half-dozen of those recorded as at work are
employed at the Sanatorium in various capacities, receiving board
and a small wage. At least six of these not accounted for in 190S
are believed to be well and at work, four in Canada and one at
Lowestoft employed in fishing.
90. The limitations of Sanatorium treatment were referred to
in the 1906 Report. Phthisis cannot be prevented from recurring
in susceptible subjects who return to unfavourable conditions, but
a few months stay at a Sanatorium is a very successful means of
re-establishing health temporarily in nearly all, and permanently
in a large proportion.
The result of sending patients for only one month has been
decidedly satisfactory. For many the period seems sufficient to
re-establish their health and enable them to resume work and keep
well under favourable conditions. At least four who left the
Sanatorium in 1906 after one month's treatment are now well and