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Your Committee are informed that the approximate annual cost for
each bed in a Sanatorium would be £70.
As the Council are aware Phthisis cases are notified voluntarily,
disinfection and such other preventive methods as are possible
are carried on, but nothing of a practical nature is being done
by the Council to deal with the cases themselves as they arise.
It may be pointed out, in the event of the Council deciding to
adopt the principle under consideration, that only cases in the
first stage of the disease would be dealt with and as far as
possible preference would be given to males.
A suitable case, for instance, would be that of a young man with a
young family, in the early stage of the disease, where a few
months treatment at a Sanatorium would perhaps restore him
to health, while at the same time he would be trained in the
general hygienic regulations of his life in a practical manner
that would be scarcely possible in his home.
Your Committee feel that Southwark, having regard to the large
number of Phthisis cases annually notified, should follow the
example of other Borough Councils, including Woolwich and
Westminster, in securing accommodation for initial cases of
Phthisis in Sanatoria free from the disadvantages of the Poor
Law.
PHTHISIS

Bacteriological Specimens examined.
296 specimens were examined and 72 found positive. In Diphtheria
145 examined, 31 positive. In Phthisis 139 examined, 38 positive. In
Enteric Fever, 12 examined, 3 positive.