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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 1928

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]

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Table: Institutional Treatment.The following Table, No. 71, shows the number of admissions to hospitals, sanatoria, Poor Law Institutions and training colonies.TABLE No. 71.

Institutional Treatment.The following Table, No. 71, shows the number of admissions to hospitals, sanatoria, Poor Law Institutions and training colonies.

TABLE No. 71.

Hospitals.Sanatoria.Poor Law Institns.Training Colonies.
Insured13869722
Uninsured582426-
Children74412-
270971102

Table: These numbers refer to 371 patients and the monthly admissions from January to December were as follows :—

These numbers refer to 371 patients and the monthly admissions from January to December were as follows :—

January27July42
February33August55
March42September34
April52October30
May56November42
June32December34

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It has become evident that there is a good deal of misunderstanding
as to the place which training colonies and
village settlements occupy in the institutional scheme. It
must be realised that village settlements offer no solution of
the whole problem of employment for tuberculous patients.
The number admitted as colonists to these institutions is
extremely small, usually less than 10 per institution per