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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
Bethnal Green 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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Register at the end of 1958, variations which have taken place during
the year, and the number of cases remaining on the Register on the
31st December, 1959.
TABLE 12
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males | Females | Males | Females | ||
| No. of cases on register 1.1.59 | 409 | 299 | 59 | 64 | 831 |
| No. of cases notified during 1959 | 20 | 19 | - | 3 | 42 |
| Other cases added to register during 1959 | 11 | 18 | - | 3 | 32 |
| 440 | 336 | 59 | 70 | 905 | |
| No. of cases removed from register during 1959 | 80 | 50 | 12 | 11 | 153 |
| Remaining on register 31.12.59. | 360 | 286 | 47 | 59 | 752 |
Contacts or Carriers of Infectious Disease- Sickness Benefit
Circular 115/48 of the Ministry of Health empowers the Medical
Officer of Health to issue certificates to persons who have been in
contact with or who are carriers of infectious disease, thus enabling
them to claim sickness benefit under the National Insurance Acts, when
he deems it necessary to require a contact or carrier of infectious
disease to stay away from work and during the year under review two
such certificates were issued.
It was also necessary on one occasion to request a contact of a
case of poliomyelitis to discontinue her employment as an outworker
for a period of three weeks. This woman, who was not entitled to
National Health sickness benefit, applied to the Council for payment
of loss of earnings and the consent of the Ministry of Housing and
Local Government, in accordance with Section 228 (1) of the Local
Government Act 1933, was obtained to the payment of an agreed amount.