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The Ministry of Health's memorandum on vaccination against smallpox
recommends that persons likely to have to deal with cases of smallpox at
short notice should be regularly revaccinated at not more than yearly
intervals. During the year, 66 members of the staff of the department
were vaccinated or revaccinated.
Tuberculosis.
During the year, 77 new cases of tuberculosis were notified, of
which 67 were respiratory and 10 were non-respiratory. In addition, 35
other cases were reported, mainly by other borough councils, of persons
moving into this borough. These figures again show a decrease in cases.
In addition to the above new cases on the register, there were
those who were removed from the register, either through moving out of
the borough, dying, being cured or moving without trace, and the final
figures in the register at the end of the year were as follows:-
Respiratory
Non-respiratory
Total
Male Female Male Female
526 326 28 53 935
Every effort has been made by Public Health Inspectors and Health
Visitors to visit all newly-notified cases (and those transferred in
or changing address in the borough) with the object of tracing the
source, preventing the spread, and removing conditions favourable to
infection. Particular attention was given to the home conditions in
addition to the dissemination of advice to prevent the transmission of
infection to contacts.

In a further nineteen cases, information concerning origin could
not be obtained.