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Southwark 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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TABLE 52.
Return for the year 1935.
(A) Return showing the work of the Dispensary (or Dispensaries).
| Diagnosis. | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary | Total. | Grand Total. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adults | Children | Adults | Children | Adults | Children | |||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |||
| A.—New Cases examined during the year (excluding contacts):— | ||||||||||||||
| (a) Definitely tuberculous | 73 | 62 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 84 | 71 | 15 | 11 | 181 | |
| (b) Diagnosis not completed | 19 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | — | 5 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 41 | |
| (c) Non-tuberculous | 34 | 36 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | 36 | 37 | 2 | 2 | 77 | |
| B.—Contacts examined during the year:— | ||||||||||||||
| (a) Definitely tuberculous .. | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 15 | |
| (b) Diagnosis not completed | — | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| (c) Non-tuberculous | 56 | 86 | 64 | 77 | — | — | — | — | 56 | 86 | 64 | 77 | 283 | |
| C.—Cases written off the Dispensary Register as:— | ||||||||||||||
| (a) Recovered | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 18 | 10 | 14 | 6 | 48 | |
| (b) Non-tuberculous (including any such cases previously diagnosed and entered on the Dispensary Register as tuberculous) | 90 | 122 | 65 | 79 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 92 | 123 | 66 | 79 | 360 | |
| D.—Number of Cases on Dispensary Register on December 31st:— (a) Definitely tuberculous | 283 | 174 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 31 | 29 | 30 | 304 | 205 | 48 | 51 | 608 | |
| (b) Diagnosis not completed | 19 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 1 | — | 5 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 45 | |
| 1. Number of cases on Dispensary Register on January 1st | 687 | 2. Number of cases transferred from other areas and cases returned after discharge under Head 3 in previous years | 47 | |||||||||||
| 3. Number of cases transferred to other areas, cases not desiring further assistance under the scheme, and cases "lost sight of" | 180 | 4. Cases written off during the year as Dead (all causes) | 94 | |||||||||||
| 5. Number of attendances at the Dispensary (including Contacts) | 3125 | 6. Number of Insured Persons under Domiciliary Treatment on the 31st December | 68 | |||||||||||
| 7. Number of consultations with medical practitioners:— | 8. Number of visits by Tuberculosis Officers to homes (including personal consultations) | 368 | ||||||||||||
| (a) Personal | 28 | |||||||||||||
| (b) Other | 202 | |||||||||||||
| 9. Number of visits by Nnrses or Health Visitors to homes for Dispensary purposes | 4199 | 10. Number of:— | ||||||||||||
| 439 | ||||||||||||||
| (b) X-ray examinations made in connection with Dispensary work. | 113 | |||||||||||||
| 11. Number of "Recovered" cases restored to Dispensary Register, and included in A (a) and A (b) above | Nil | 12. Number of "T.B. plus" cases on Dispensary Register on December 31st | 364 | |||||||||||
(B) Number of Dispensaries for the treatment of Tuberculosis (excluding centres
used only for special forms of treatment). Provided by the Council—One.