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hospital or had not been contacted by the end of the year.
The action taken in the remaining seventy-six cases is summarized
as follows
Action taken Cases
Investigation or supervision
undertaken in respect of:(a)
re-arrangement of existing
accommodation 13
(b) occupation of patients 1
(c) tracing of contacts10
(d) preventing spread of
infection 5
Recommended for priority rehousing 47
Action was taken under the Public Health and Housing Acts
in respect of insanitary or unhealthy conditions in fourteen
cases.
Incidence of tuberculosis amongst Kensington residents who
originated from areas outside England. Scotland and Wales
In my Annual Report for 1951, attention was drawn to what
appeared to be a disturbing trend in the incidence of tuberculosis
amongst immigrants. Since 1952, a more detailed investigation
of this problem has taken place and the following table sets out
the information found in 1955:-
Country of
origin
Period (in years) between
entry to United Kingdom and
notification of disease
123456789
Total
Australia - 1 - - - - - - - 1
Cyprus -1 - - - - - - - 1
Czechoslovakia 1 - - - - - - - - 1
Falkland Is. -------1- 1
France 2 1 1 - - - - - - 4
Germany - - - - 1 - - - - 1
Holland - - -1 - - - - - 1
Hong Kong 1 - - - - - - - 1
India and
Pakistan 2 - 1 1- - - 1 - 5
Ireland 8 8 1 3 2 - 1 - 2 25
Italy - 1 1 2 - - - - - 4
Jamaica 1 - 1 - - - - - - 2
Jugo-Slavia 1 - - - - - - 1
Poland 1 - 1 - 1 1 2 3 - 9
South Africa 1 - - - - - - - 1
Spain 1 1 1 - - - - - 3
Ukraine - - 1 - - - - - 1
TOTALS: 19 13 8 7 4 1 3 5 2 62