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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 1952

[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 145, classified as follows:
Males Females
Pulmonary 68 Pulmonary 69
Non-pulmonary 2 Non-pulmonary 6
Of the total additions, 80 were primary notifications, 64 were
transferred from other districts, and 1 came to notice in other ways.
For the same period, 72 names were removed from the register
for the following reasons:
Recovered 8
Death 17
Otherwise (including removals) 47
After allowing for the additions and deductions, the state of the
register at the 31st December, 1952, was as shown in the following
table:

Table: TUBERCULOSIS—WARD DISTRIBUTION. Cases on Register at 31st December, 1952.

TUBERCULOSIS—WARD DISTRIBUTION. Cases on Register at 31st December, 1952.

Ward.Pulmonary.Non-Pulmonary.TotalIncidence per 1,000 population.
Males.Females.Males.Females
St. Helier North7581101217821.0
St. Helier South6656141014621.2
St. Helier West67688915218.5
North-East637210615116.0
North-West3232—2669.2
Central33235—6110.0
South-East3631477810.0
South-West252224538.0
Totals397385535088514.3
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The total of 885 is 73 more than at the corresponding date twelve
months earlier.
The number of patients from Carshalton who received institutional
treatment under the arrangements of the South-West Metropolitan
Hospital Board during the year was as follows:
At Milford Sanatorium, Surrey 28
At other tuberculosis institutions 156
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