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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
East Ham 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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TABLE 27. 6
PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS.
Supplementary Annual Return showing in summary form (a) the condition at the end of 1931 of all patients remaining on the Clinic Register; and (b) the reasons for the removal of all cases written off the Register. The Table is arranged according to the years in which the patients were first entered on the Clinic Register as definite cases of pulmonary tuberculosis, and their
classification at that time.
| Condition at the time of the last record made during the year to which the return relates. | Previous to 1926. | 1926. | 1927. | 1928. | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. pluai | Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | Total (Claaa T.Bt plus) | Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | Total(Class T.B. plus) | Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | Total Claaa TB. Plus | ||||||||
| (a) Remaining on Clinic Register on 31st December. | Disease Arrested | Adults | M. | 30 | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 3 | 1 | — | — | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | — | 2 |
| F. | 24 | 4 | 3 | — | 7 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 3 | – | – | – | – | 7 | – | – | – | – | |||
| Children | 12 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 5 | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | |||
| Disease not Arrested | Adults | M. | 48 | 16 | 30 | 1 | 47 | 6 | 1 | 8 | – | 9 | 5 | 2 | 7 | – | 9 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 15 | |
| F. | 35 | 12 | 19 | 2 | 33 | 6 | 2 | 5 | — | 7 | 2 | — | 3 | — | 3 | 18 | 3 | 5 | — | 8 | |||
| Children | 19 | – | – | – | – | 3 | – | – | – | – | 6 | – | – | – | – | 6 | – | 1 | – | 1 | |||
| Condition not ascertained during the year | 9 | 3 | 3 | — | 6 | — | — | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 2 | – | 3 | 3 | 3 | — | — | 3 | |||
| Total on Clinic Register at 31st December | 177 | 36 | 56 | 3 | 95 | 21 | 4 | 14 | – | 18 | 23 | 4 | 13 | — | 17 | 50 | 11 | 17 | 1 | 29 | |||
| (6) Not now on Clinic Register and reasons for removal therefrom. | Discharged as Recovered | Adults | M. | 5 | 2 | — | — | 2 | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| F. | 8 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| Children | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| Lost sight of or otherwise removed from Clinic Register | 258 | 26 | 44 | 3 | 73 | 47 | 6 | 25 | — | 31 | 36 | 10 | 17 | 2 | 29 | 30 | 12 | 17 | 3 | 32 | |||
| Dead | Adults | M. | 32 | 4 | 42 | 27 | 73 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 12 | 35 | 5 | 3 | 23 | 11 | 37 | 10 | 1 | 18 | 8 | 27 | |
| F. | 23 | 3 | 24 | 21 | 48 | 6 | 6 | 20 | 10 | 36 | 1 | – | 15 | 8 | 23 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 22 | ||||
| Children | 4 | – | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | – | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | — | 1 | |||
| Total written off Clinic Register | 335 | 35 | 111 | 52 | 198 | 62 | 14 | 66 80 | 23 | 103 | 46 | 14 | 55 | 21 | 90 | 44 | 18 | 44 | 20 | 82 | |||
| 512 | 71 | 167 | 55 | 293 | 83 18 | 23 | 121 | 69 | 18 | 68 | 21 | 107 | 94 | 29 | 61 | 21 | 111 | ||||||
| 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| (a) Remaining on Clinic Register on 31st December. | Disease Arrested | Adults | M. | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| F. | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||||
| Children | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||||
| Disease not Arrested | Adults | M. | 20 | 3 | 23 | 1 | 27 | 17 | 11 | 20 | 34 | 18 | 6 | 25 | 4 | 35 | |||||||
| F. | 11 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 16 | 16 | 6 | 16 | 1 | 23 | 21 | 11 | 22 | 5 | 38 | ||||||||
| Children | 7 | 1 | – | — | 1 | 5 | – | – | — | — | 2 | – | – | — | – | ||||||||
| Condition not ascertained during the year | 1 | 2 | — | 3 | 2 | – | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | — | 1 | |||||||||
| Total on Clinic Register at 31st December | 41 | 11 | 33 | 3 | 47 | 40 | 17 | 37 | 4 | 58 | 42 | 18 | 47 | 9 | 74 | ||||||||
| (b) Not now on Clinic Register and reasons for removal therefrom. | Discharged as Recovered | Adults | M. | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| F. | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||||
| Children | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||||
| Lost sight of or otherwise removed from Clinic Register | 22 | 5 | 13 | — | 18 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 4 | — | 5 | ||||||||||
| Dead | Adults | M. | 11 | 15 | 29 | 4 | — | 4 | 17 | 21 | — | — | 2 | 3 | 5 | ||||||||
| F. | 7 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | |||||||||
| Children | – | – | — | — | — | – | — | — | 2 | 2 | – | — | — | – | — | ||||||||
| Total written off Clinic Register | 32 | 9 | 30 | 20 | 59 | 8 | 4 | 13 | 29 | 46 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 15 | ||||||||
| 73 | 20 | 63 | 23 | 106 | 48 | 21 | 50 | 33 | 104 | 46 | 20 | 54 | 15 | 89 | |||||||||