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minor or major degree at some period in their lives were referred to the Chest
Clinic for thorough investigation 212 positives were so referred B CG
vaccination was carried out on 550 children
It can be seen from the scope of the scheme that it will take about 10 years
before a significant number of school children have been examined and treated
in this way, but by that time there will be a higher percentage of immunity in
the adolescent population
HOUSING CONDITIONS OF CASES OF TUBERCULOSIS
NOTIFIED DURING 1957
The housing conditions of 59 of the 78 cases of tuberculosis were found
to be as follows:-
58 patients lived in sufficiently satisfactory housing accommodation, 30
in flats 21 in houses 6 in lodgings or furnished rooms, and 1 in a prefabricated
dwelling
In no case was there overcrowding, but one case living in a flat was considered
to have unsatisfactory housing conditions The housing particulars of
19 cases were not obtainable either because of removal of patients to other
districts or because of resistance of patients to home visiting
4 new notifications came from homes already returning one or more cases of
tuberculosis Noneof these came from houses classed as unsatisfactory or dilapidated
There have been 7 notifications of tuberculosis from one house, 1 of
them being submitted in 1957 and 3 notifications from another house, 1 of them
being submitted in 1957
29 cases were inward transfers from other districts and, therefore, had
not developed their illness while resident in Brentford and Chiswick,

* Houseboat now moved from district.
Mass X ray Survey
In November 1957 the Mass X-ray Unit returned to Brentford and Chiswick
for a survey of the population. The officers of the Unit seemed to feel that
in other boroughs a good response had been obtained without an appointments
system and that general publicity and an open invitation to everyone to attend
as and when they could, would probably bring as successful or perhaps even a
more successful attendance. This did not, however, turn out to be the case in
Brentford and chiswick. Although the Unit was in the borough for seven weeks,
the numbers eventually X-rayed were lower than on the previous visit of the
Unit which lasted a shorter time
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