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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 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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TABLE 36
Return showing the Results of Observation of Doubtfully Tuberculous Cases Discharged during the year 1938 from Institutions Approved for the Treatment of Tuberculosis (including Harts Sanatorium).
| Diagnosis on discharge from observation. | For Pulmonary Tuberculosis. | For Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis. | Totals. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stay under 4 weeks. | Stay over 4 weeks. | Stay under 4 weeks. | Stay over 4 weeks. | ||||||||||||
| M. | F. | Ch | M. | F. | Ch. | M. | F. | Ch. | M. | F. | Ch. | M. | F. | Ch. | |
| T uberculous | — | — | — | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 1 | — |
| Non-tuberculous | 3 | 2 | — | 3 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6 | 2 | 1 |
| Doubtful | +1 | — | — | *3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 4 | — | — |
| Totals | 4 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | 3 | 1 | |
†Subsequently died of Bronchiectasis.
* 2 subsequently notified as Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
1 subsequently diagnosed and died of Carcinoma.