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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Bethnal Green 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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TABLE 12
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males | Females | Males | Females | ||
| No. of cases on register 1.1.57 | 424 | 330 | 64 | 68 | 886 |
| No. of cases notified during 1957 | 24 | 17 | - | 2 | 43 |
| Other cases added to register during 1957 | 14 | 10 | 1 | 25 | |
| 462 | 357 | 64 | 71 | 954 | |
| No. of cases removed from register during 1957 | 31 | 42 | 3 | 3 | 79 |
| Remaining on register 31.12.57 | 431 | 315 | 6l | 68 | 875 |
Contacts or Carriers of Infectious Disease - Sickness Benefit
Circular 115/48 of the Ministry of Health empowers the Medical
Officer of Health to Issue certificates to persons who have been in
contact with or who are carriers of infectious disease, thus
enabling them to claim sickness benefit under the National Insurance
Acts, when he deems it necessary to exclude such persons from work.
It Is only exceptionally that it is necessary to require a contact
or carrier of infectious disease to stay away from work and during
the year under review only one certificate was Issued.