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It will be seen from the foregoing table that the recent steady
decline in the mortality rate from Tuberculosis has been arrested,
and the past year exhibits a sharp rise.
Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1925.
No action was found necessary during 1936 under the provisions
of these Regulations, which relate to the occurrence of Tuberculosis
among persons engaged in the handling of milk.
Revision of Notification Register.
In accordance with the suggestion of the Ministry of Health
the Tuberculosis Notification register is periodically revised, and
during 1936 the names of 81 patients were removed from the register
as compared with 75 in 1935.
The County of London (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1930.
Seventeen children were, by arrangement with the Invalid
Children's Aid Association, boarded out under the scheme of the
London County Council under the above Regulations, in addition
to five sent in the previous year whose period extended into 1936.
The County Council make no charge to parents or guardians
for this service.
TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARY.
The staff engaged on Tuberculosis work at the Dispensary
will be found on pages 3 and 4.
The Tuberculosis Officer continues to act as honorary Tuberculosis
Consultant to St. James's Hospital, and visits the hospital
every week. Patients are found to be readier to enter hospital when
they know this arrangement exists. In addition to the patients in
the tuberculosis wards many special cases are seen in other wards
at the request of the Medical Superintendent.
The Tuberculosis Medical Officer and one of the tuberculosis
nurses are employed part-time in the medical inspection of children
attending Springwell House Open Air School, Clapham Common
North Side. Children exposed to infection in their homes are now
eligible for admission to the school, in addition to notified cases.
The London County Council in June forwarded a revised
scheme approved by the Ministry of Health for the treatment of
tuberculosis in London. The revision had become necessary owing
to statutory changes and other alterations made since 1922 in
administrative machinery, but it involved no change in the main
purpose of the former schemes.
The contribution made by the London County Council towards
the cost of the dispensary treatment of tuberculosis is revised