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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

Carshalton 1947

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton]

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Tuberculosis.
The new cases admitted to the tuberculosis register during the
year numbered 147, classified as follows :
Males. Females.
Pulmonary 69 Pulmonary 69
Non-pulmonary 5 Non-pulmonary 4
Of the total additions 114 were primary notifications, 29 were
transferred from other districts, and 4 came to notice in other ways.
For the same period 116 names were removed from the register for
the following reasons:
Recovered 31
Deaths 27
Otherwise (including removals) 58
After allowing for the additions and deductions, the state of the
register at the 31st December, 1947, was as shown in the following
table :

Table: TUBERCULOSIS—WARD DISTRIBUTION. Cases on Register at 31st December, 1947.

TUBERCULOSIS—WARD DISTRIBUTION. Cases on Register at 31st December, 1947.

Ward.Pulmonary.Non-Pulmonary.TotalIncidence per 1,000 population.
Males.Females.Males.Females.
St. Helier North576413914316.7
St. Helier South4449131311916.8
St. Helier West583991512114.8
North-East48459710911.7
North-West323144719.7
Central301971579.3
South-East272257618.3
South-West291531487.2
Totals325284635772912.0.
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The total of 729 is 31 more than at the corresponding date twelve
months earlier.
The Surrey County Council is responsible for the anti-tuberculosis
scheme in the area. The number of patients from Carshalton who
received institutional treatment under the County scheme during the
year was as follows:
At Surrey County Sanatorium, Milford 31
At other tuberculosis institutions 125
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