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Whooping Cough—Continued.
Home nursing is valuable, provided that contacts of
the patient are supervised for the detection of the disease
at any early stage, and institutional treatment is essential
for those whose home conditions are unfavourable for proper
treatment and care.
Limited accommodation is available in the Metropolitan
Asylums Board Institutions for the reception of those cases
unable to obtain adequate care at home, but I understand
the demand on their hospitals for the reception of scarlet
fever and diphtheria cases does not permit of more cases
being accommodated.
Venereal Diseases.— The treatment of venereal disease
in Camberwell is in the hands of the London County Council.
The nearest Hospital for Camberwell residents requiring
treatment is King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill.
Although there was no local Propaganda Committee functioning
in Camberwell during 1923, the National Council for
Combating Venereal Diseases carried on propaganda work in
Camberwell by giving a certain number of lectures during
the year, these lectures being illustrated by suitable films.
Foot-and-Mouth Disease.— There have been rare instances
in which this disease has been communicated to man through
the secretions from the mouth of the infected animal to cowkeepers
and other persons in close contact with the animal.
Under the present system, by which infected animals are
immediately slaughtered, there is little probability of an
extension of the disease to man. Further, this policy of
slaughtering, under efficient supervision, all animals found
to be suffering from the disease or to have been in contact
with diseased animals dispenses with the question of milk
or meat from infected animals reaching the public.
Every step is being taken by the Authorities to prevent
the sale for human consumption of milk from animals
so infected, the sale of which, or consumption for human
food, is prevented by Article 15 of the Dairies, Cowsheds, and
Milkshops Order of 1885.