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During the year a total of 441 home visits were made by
tuberculosis visitors.
Over the past decade great advances have been made in the
treatment, and hence in the prevention of tuberculosis, and the
disease, as the above figures indicate, is much less of a problem
than it was in years gone by. Nevertheless, its importance as a
public health hazard must not be under-estimated.
A reference to the work of the Chest Clinics and to the
activities of the Tuberculosis Care Committees will be found on
pages 68 to 73.
Typhoid Fever
Five confirmed cases were notified during the year. In four of
these the source of infection was from abroad.
Two cases, one a youth of 17 years and the other a woman of
52 years were recent arrivals in this country from India. A third
case was a girl of 4 years, recently arrived from Pakistan and the
fourth, a boy of 6 years, had been on holiday in Jamaica. All
contacts were cleared by bacteriological examination.
In the remaining case, that of a boy of 9 years, it was not
possible to discover the source of infection, although it is a point of
interest that the boy's father, uncle and aunt are all Indian by
birth, but have resided in this country for a number of years.
All family and close school contacts of this case were thoroughly
investigated and no further cases were found.