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The other tubercular diseases together accounted for 20 deaths, giving a
death-rate of 0.27 per thousand. It was 0.29 last year. Of these deaths,
two were residents of the district in the Edmonton Workhouse. The total
deaths from these diseases in the Edmonton Workhouse numbered six.
In this way, tuberculosis contributed a total death-rate of 1.20 per
thousand of our own population, or 9.8 per cent. of all the deaths, excluding
strangers; it was 15.4 last year.
The Chief Woman Inspector paid to consumptives 593 visits and re-visits
during the year, compared with 466 the year before, and also 47 visits and
re-visits to other cases of tubercle. The disinfection of the room lately occupied
by the patient, and of his clothes and bedding, is carried out. There was, as
before, some overlapping of visits with those of the County official.
Tuberculous Meat and Milk. In March the organs of an ox were
surrendered from a slaughterhouse.
Institutional Accommodation. I have received the following information
with reference to this:—
(1) Edmonton Workhouse and Old Infirmaht.—A few chronic cases are
retained here, but all cases likely to benefit are transferred to Grosvenor
Sanatorium, Kennington, near Ashford, Kent.
(2) Epileptic Colony.—When found to be tubercular, a man is sent
back to his own area.
TUBERCULOSIS REGULATIONS, 1912.