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Hackney 1930

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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Visits by Tuberculosis Visitors.—The following are particulars of the home visits paid in 1930 by the Council's Tuberculosis Visitors:—

New Cases.Contacts.Sailors and Soldiers.Other Persons.Total.Insured.Non-insured.
Miss Servante15810575173520731148925
Miss Clarke22715172180622561646610
Totals3852561473541432927941535

Hackney Borough Council Act, 1926.—Section 54 of this Act,
which differs in important details from Section 28 of the London
County Council (General Powers) Act, 1928, enables the Council
to secure the compulsory removal to a suitable institution of any
person suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis who is in an infectious
state and living under such conditions as to cause risk of infection
to other persons.

The number of patients who have received residential treatment under the Act in each year since 1926 is as follows:—

Year.No. of Patients.No. of Contacts.
192636
1927929
19281031
1929625
1930721
Total35112

In no case has it been necessary to secure a magistrate's order
for compulsory removal.
It has also been possible to secure improvement in the home
conditions of other patients by making reference to the powers
of removal contained in the Act.
Provision of Shelters for Home Isolation.—Upon the recommendation
of the Tuberculosis Officers shelters are loaned and
erected in the gardens of patients' homes in order to facilitate
home isolation. Three shelters were erected by the staff of the
Public Health Department during 1930, the number on loan at
the end of the year being four.