[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea, Metropolitan Borough of].

  • Battersea (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1923?]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea, Metropolitan Borough of]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    49 2 Cases were referred to the Battersea Trust Charities for educational grants. 3 Cases were referred to the Borough Council—for remission of rates, 2; other assistance, 1. 10 Cases were referred to other agencies for assistance. Non-Dispensary Patients. In addition to the work carried out by the staff of the Tuber culosis Dispensary, 1,818 visits to houses of notified cases of Tuber culosis were made by the Sanitary Inspectors (male and female). Women and children notified to be suffering from Tuberculosis and not attending the Tuberculosis Dispensary are visited at their homes by one of the female Sanitary Inspectors (Miss Round). During the year 1922 the number of cases of women and children not in attendance at the Dispensary notified to the Medical Officer of Health was 148. Of this number, after deducting cancelled cases, removals, &c., 138 were investigated, and the results are summarised as follows Women—73. Children—65. Married 35 Boys 31 Single 33 Girls 34 Widows 5 Total cases 138 Cases found to be dead on first visit, 32. Age and Sex Distribution. 0-1 1-5 5-10 10-15 15-20 20-25 25-35 35-45 45-55 55-65 65 up wards All ages Pulmonary M. 1 4 1 1 - - - - - - - 7 F- — — 4 5 5 12 16 11 7 4 3 67 Tubercular Meningitis M. 2 3 2 1 8 F. 1 4 1 1 — — 1 — — — — 8 Other Tubercu lar Disease M. - 1 6 8 15 F- 1 2 12 4 4 3 3 2 2 — — 33 Total M. 3 8 9 10 - — — — - - - 30 F. 2 6 17 10 9 15 20 13 9 4 3 108 Grand Total 5 14 26 20 9 15 20 13 9 4 3 138 Home Conditions. The home conditions found on investigation showed a marked improvement compared with a similar inquiry relating to the same class of patients in 1921, in regard to the precautionary measures