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Hornsey 1941
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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TUBERCULOSIS.
PUBLIC HEALTH (PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS)
REGULATIONS.
No occasion has arisen in the course of the year to put these
powers into action.
There were 696 beds available solely for Middlesex under the Middlesex County Council's scheme for the treatment of Tuberculosis in sanatoria, namely:—
| Institution | Accommodation | Types of cases | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adults | children | |||
| M | F | |||
| County Sanatorium, | 136 | 164 | 68 | Pulmonary—sanatorium |
| Harefield | 4 | 4 | 10 | „ observation |
| County Sanatorium, Clare Hall | 170 | 72 | . | ,, sanatorium |
| Danesbury Manor, Welwyn | . | 57 | 5 | ,, |
| Victoria Home, Widdicombe, Devon | . | . | 6 | Non-pulmonary |
Patients are also sent to the Middlesex County Council's
general hospitals and to numerous other voluntary hospitals and
sanatoria.
The total number of cases on the Tuberculosis Register at
the end of 1941 was 874, viz., pulmonary 661), noil.pulmonary 205,
an increase of 21 on the total for last year.
A table showing the history of cases of Tuberculosis during
the year will be found on Table F.
MORTUARY.
Seventy.three bodies were received at the mortuary and
inquests held on 12 of them.
DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACTS.
Mr. F. G. Buxton, the Veterinary Inspector, has kindly
supplied me with details of his work in the Borough under the
Diseases of Animals Acts and Orders during 1941 as follows:—