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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 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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TABLE 20.
Return showing the work of the Tuberculosis and Chest Clinic, 1935.
| Diagnosis. | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | Total. | Grand Total | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adults. | Children. | Adults. | Children. | Adults. | Children. | ||||||||
| M. | P. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | ||
| A.—New Cases examined during the | |||||||||||||
| 71 | 57 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 78 | 63 | 15 | 9 | 165 | |
| — | — | _ | - | - | - | - | - | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 16 | |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 58 | 36 | 11 | 14 | 119 | |
| B.—Contacts examined during the year :— | |||||||||||||
| 13 | 8 | 2 | 2 | — | — | 2 | — | 13 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 27 | |
| (b) Diagnosis not completed | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 12 |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 51 | 76 | 43 | 39 | 209 | |
| C.-—Cases written off the Clinic Register as — | |||||||||||||
| (a) Recovered | 11 | — | 4 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 11 | - | 6 | 3 | 20 |
| (b) Non-tuberculous (including any such cases previously diagnosed and entered on the Clinic Register as tuberculous) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| D.—Number of Cases on Clinic Register on December 31st, 1935 :— | |||||||||||||
| 369 | 327 | 30 | 10 | 68 | 78 | 63 | 29 | 437 | 405 | 93 | 39 | 974 | |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 9 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 28 | |