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Cause.
Under
1
1
to 2
2
to 5
5
to 15
15
to 25
25
to 45
45
to 65
65 and
upwards
Tubercular}
Meningitis}
4
3
2
4
—
—
—
—
Other Tubercular}
Diseases }
4
1
2
4
4
3
1
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Tuberculosis.
In the past our attention has been particularly devoted to
Pulmonary Tuberculosis instead of to Tuberculosis in general.
The reason for this may have been that Phthisis caused more
deaths than all the other forms put together. Again the
Tuberculosis Regulations, 1911, only required the notification
of the Pulmonary variety, but the Regulations of 1912 include,
fortunately, every variety of Tuberculosis, so that Tuberculosis
statistics in the future will be far more valuable than they have
been hitherto.
The crowning effort of the Council for the year was the
opening of our Municipal Dispensary for the free treatment
of all forms of Tuberculosis, and it was owing to the munificence
of Mr. Mumford Preston that we were able to obtain
a very fine freehold building and convert it into a model
dispensary with practically no cost to the Council. So small
indeed is the cost of public health administration, including the
Dispensary, in the Borough of Deptford that the total cost of
administration does not equal a penny rate—this is very low
and yet the Council is to be congratulated that it has a sufficient
staff and efficiency in work.
Last year I gave a full account of the objects and aims of
a Dispensary for the Prevention of Consumption. In addition
to this I distributed some thousands of pages on Tuberculosis
in the form of booklets, pamphlets, and newspaper reports. I
propose now to deal with it as it now appears to us—an actual
working part of our machinery.