[Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Sheffield City.

  • Sheffield (England). City Council.
Date:
1942
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Credit: [Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Sheffield City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NON-PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS. By C. Lee Pattison, m.b., b.s. (Lond.), m.r.c.s., l.r.c.p., Surgical Tuberculosis Officer and Medical Superintendent of King Edward VII Hospital. There were 183 notifications of non-pulmonarv tuberculosis received during the year 1942, to which must be added 17 non-notified deaths, so that the total of the new notifications in 1942 was 200. The table which follows gives a classification of the types of these cases and a similar classification of the 51 deaths which occurred during the year. Information relating to the attack rates and death rates of non-pulmonary tuberculosis (Other Forms of Tuberculosis) will be found in the Vital Statistics section of this Report. TABLE XXIII.—Non-pulmonary Tuberculosis-Classification of Cases and Deaths in the year 1942. Classification Number of cases notified Number of Deaths Meningeal 15 23 Abdominal . . 19 6 Genito-Urinary System 13 3 Bones and Joints . . 56 7 Skin . . 3 1 Others 94 11 Totals *200 51 *Includes non-notified deaths. Hospital Treatment.—Children suffering from non-pulmonary tuberculosis are treated in King Edward VII Hospital, the normal accommodation of which at 31st December, 1942, was 123 beds. 40 of these beds were held available as Emergency Hospital accommodation during the year, but fortunately none of them were required. Patients discharged after treatment for non-pulmonary tuberculosis in the hospital in the year 1942, as will be seen in the statement below, totalled 142. 94 of them were suffering from tuberculosis of bones or joints. Patients Discharged from King Edward VII Hospital in the Year 1942, after Treatment Classification. for Non-pitlmonary Tuberculosis. Males. Females. Total. Bones and Joints . 61 33 94 Abdominal . 7 9 16 Peripheral Glands 5 9 14 Skin . i — 1 Observation . 5 3 8 Others . 4 5 9 Totals . . 83 59 142 In addition to the above there were 54 patients who had been treated for orthopaedic conditions discharged from this hospital in the year 1942. Adult cases of tuberculosis of bones and joints with infectious lung conditions were treated at Nether Edge Hospital. The following statement sets out the number of patients under treatment in the hospital at 31st December, 1941, the number of admissions in the year 1942 and the number of discharges and deaths during the year, together with the number of patients remaining under treatment at 31st December, 1942 :— Non- Pulmonary Orthopaedic Total Tuberculosis. Cases. Patients Patients under treatment at 31st December, 1941. 71 12 83 Year 1942— Patients admitted 154 49 203 Patients discharged 142 54 196 Deaths 7 ' _ 7 Patients remaining under treatment at 31st December, 1942 *76 7 83 * 68 of these patients were suffering from Tuberculosis of Bones or Joints. Out-Patient Supervision.—Out-patients continued to attend the clinic at the Tuberculosis Dispensary as in previous years and these patients made a total of 4,071 attendances during the year 1942. New cases attending this clinic during the year numbered 402, of whom 344 were retained for treatment—50 men, 45 women, 141 boys and 108 girls. In addition the attendances for ultra violet light treatment at the Dispensary numbered 2,582.