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Hornsey 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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There was no case of blindness resulting from this infection.
| Case | Vision unimpaired. | Vision impaired. | Total blindness. | Deaths. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notified. | Treated | |||||
| At home. | In hospital or nursing home. | |||||
| 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
TUBERCULOSIS.
PUBLIC HEALTH (PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS)
REGULATIONS.
No occasion has arisen in the course of the year to put these
powers into action.
Sanatorium provision for all forms of Tuberculosis in
Hornsey is made by the Middlesex County Council.
There are 606 beds available solely for Middlesex under the
Middlesex County Council scheme for the treatment of
Tuberculosis in sanatoria, namely:—
Harefield Sanatorium, Uxbridge ... 378 beds For
Clare Hall Sanatorium, South Minims 198 ,, pulmonary
Royal Chest Hospital 24 ,, cases
Victoria Home, Margate 6 ,, For
pulmonary cases
Pulmonary cases in excess of these numbers and nonpulmonary
cases are maintained by the County Council in
sanatoria and hospitals in various parts of the country.
The total number of cases on the Tuberculosis Register at
the end of 1938 was 816, viz., pulmonary 642, non-pulmonary
204, an increase of 41 on the total for last year.
A table showing the history of Tuberculosis cases during
the year will be found on Table H.
MORTUARY.
Seventy-one bodies were received at the mortuary and
inquests held on 22 of them.