Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton]
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M ales—
Pulmonary 49
Non-pulmonary 16
Females—
Pulmonary 41
Non-pulmonary 16
Of the total additions 84 were primary notifications, 34 were
transferred from other districts and 4 came to notice in other ways.
For the same period, 104 names were removed from the register
for the following reasons :—
Recovered 15
Death 39
Withdrawn notifications 5
Otherwise (including removals)
45
After allowing for the additions and reductions, the state of the
register at the 31st December, 1938, was as shown in the following
table:–
TABLE 27.
TUBERCULOSIS REGISTER AT DECEMBER 31st, 1938.
Pulmonary | Non-pulmonary | All forms | |
---|---|---|---|
Males | 198 | 78 | 276 |
Females | 192 | 55 | 247 |
Totals | 390 | 133 | 523 |
The total of 523 is 18 more than at the corresponding date
twelve months earlier. They were distributed by Wards as follows:
TUBERCULOSIS-WARD DISTRIBUTION. Cases on Register at 31st December, 1938.
WARD | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Males | Females | Males | Females | ||
St. Helier North | 45 | 52 | 19 | 6 | 122 |
St. Helier South | 43 | 36 | 10 | 12 | 101 |
St. Helier West | 40 | 36 | 19 | 13 | 108 |
North-East | 17 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 45 |
North-West | 14 | 22 | 8 | 5 | 49 |
Central | 9 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 30 |
South-East | 18 | 13 | 5 | 8 | 44 |
South-West | 12 | 11 | 1 | – | 24 |
198 | 192 | 78 | 55 | 523 | |
390 | 133 |