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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Bromley 1923
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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The Tuberculosis Register, which is kept in accordance
with the Tuberculosis Regulations, 1912, is amended
up to date. The entries go back to February, 1913, bu't
all those relating to persons known to have died or left the
district have been deleted. Index record cards are also kept
up to date with particulars of each case.
The following figures include pulmonary and non-pulmonary cases :—
| Number of names of persons deleted from Register on account of death | 267 | |
| Ditto. Ditto., left the district Remaining on Register— | 186 | |
| Pulmonary cases | 164 | |
| Non-pulmonary cases | 120 | |
| 284 | ||
| Total persons registered since February, 1913, excluding 392 secondary entries concerning persons notified on Forms C and D | 737 | |
Of the 284 entries remaining on the Register, a
number relate to cases which are quiescent oir recovered,
arid these include a number oif persons suffering from surgical
tuberculosis who have been cured by operative treatment.
Cards relating to these are filed separately, and
tfaey are not visited, but there is no authority for removing
their names from the register as there is in the case oi
persons who have died or left the district.
It is the general practice to carry out disinfection aftei
all deaths from tuberculosis notified in the weekly death
returns, or otherwise brought to the notice of the Pufbl'ic
Health Department, as well as after patients have left the
district, whether permanently or for sanatorium treatment,