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HOUSING CONDITIONS OF GASES OF TUBERCULOSIS NOTIFIED DURING 1950
The housing conditions of the 108 new cases of tuberculosis
were found to he as follows
56 families lived in satisfactory housing accommodation, 33 of
the flatted type, 21 in houses and 2 in basements or lodgings.
In 5 cases the housing was unsatisfactory or dilapidated and in
14 cases there was overcrowding.
Special attention was paid to the overcrowded houses and bad
property to ascertain the incidence of secondary cases of infection
which might be attributable to these conditions.
It is very interesting to note that on this year's notifications
as far as can be ascertained from the information which we have been
able to obtain up to the present time, no single family in which
more than one member is a notified case of tuberculosis is living in
housing conditions which are dilapidated, insanitary or overcrowded.
Of the 33 remaining cases of tuberculosis notified, 8 cases
removed from the district and 2 died before information could be
obtained, 6 cases were not notified until death, and of the
remaining cases, information was unobtainable for reasons of no
access to premises and unwillingness on the part of the patient or
relative to communicate information, etc.

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