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Full details are shown in School medical ???.
C.4. Smallpox.
All arrangement exists between the London County Council
and the Erith Borough, Council for ??? for cases
occurring within the Borough.
C.5. Disinfection.
Followin, the removal of cases of infectious disease
tuberculosis, etc. 141 premises were disinfected, whilst
enquiries to obtain particulars regarding 80 cases of tuberculosis
were undertaken. The Council have??? disinfactor at the
isolation hospital at which clothing, bedding, etc. are disinfected
in addition to disinfections carried out for the hospital.
C.6. Laboratory.
Examinations one of pathological specimens and other laboratory
work for the department are undertaken by the Kent County
Laboratory, Sessions House, Maidsbone.
C.7. Tuberculosis.
C. 7...Treatment_ and Hospital Accammodation.
The Kent County Council are responsible for cases of Tuberculosis
occurring within the District, and also for sanatorium treatment and
hospital accommodation for Erith residents.
A dispensary is held weekly at 65, Bexley Road, Erith by a
whole-time Tuberculosis officer and since June 1941, 90 beds at the
Kettlewell Hospital, Swanley, have been made available for the treatment
of Tuberculosis patients.
Arrangements are in hand (end practically completed)for a
portable X-ray apparatus to be in use ??? Friday morning at the
Erith dispensary so that X-ray examinations may be carried out in
the borough. This will be a creat help_ to patients as previously
nearly all these examinations involved journeys outside the town.
In the tables which follow, particulars of new cases of
tuberculosis and of all deaths from the disease in the area, during
1943 are shown in Table II whilst Table I shows the quarterly statements
of cases on the register, together with the position at the
31st December, 1943.