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TUBERCULOSIS.
Twenty cases of Pulmonary Consumption have been brought
to the notice of the Health Department during the year, 16 cases
having been notified under the Public Health (Tuberculosis)
Regulations, 1908, and 4 voluntarily.
The number of times the above twenty cases were notified
is as follows
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1908.
12 cases were notified once.
1 case was notified twice.
2 cases were notified three times.
1 case was notified five times.
Voluntary.
4 cases were notified once.
Total number of cases notified 20
Total number of times notified 29
The cases which are notified under the Public Health
(Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1908, are poor law cases and require
considerable supervision. The above case which was notified five
times this year, was also notified four times last year. One of the
cases notified three times was notified on two occasions from
different addresses. one of them being a common lodging house in
the district. The moving about from place to place of consumptive
patients in an active stage of this infectious disease without adequatesupervision
from the Health Authority is not satisfactory. These
cases require to be visited and instructed as to the best means they
can take to prolong their own lives and ensure the safety of the
public.
During the year, the Joint Isolation Hospital Committee have
had before them the advisability of admitting early consumptives
into their Isolation Hospitals for
(1). Treatment and
(2). Educational reasons.
The Committee have decided to make use of the Small-pox
Hospital at Dockwell for this purpose.