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Infectious disease visiting
The Council employs infectious disease visitors whose duty it is
to visit the homes of persons who are stated to be suffering from a
notifiable infectious disease. Both infectious disease visitors are state
registered nurses, and also registered fever nurses. The work they do
is in addition to visits paid by the food inspectors to cases of food
poisoning and by the district sanitary inspectors on certain other
occasions.
The work of the infectious disease visitors as agents of the medical
officer of health includes the investigation of home conditions, the
giving of advice to patients and contacts, particularly where the patient
is left at home, and in general the taking of such measures as may be
necessary to combat the spread of infection.
The following is a summary of the work in visiting infectious
diseases carried out during the year, which is in addition to the visits
paid by the sanitary inspectors referred to in table 20:—

Tuberculosis
The number of primary notifications of new cases received during
the year 1950, and deaths, together with comparative figures for the
previous year, were as follows :—