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of parts of the body other than the lungs. From sources other than
formal notification, a case of pulmonary and another of nonpulmonary
were posthumously notified. In 1965, some 56 pulmonary
and 13 non-pulmonary cases were notified giving a consolidated
total of 69.
During 1966, some 2,542 Greenwich school children and,
students received B.C.G. vaccination under the direction of School
Medical Officers.
Although not always essential, disinfection was offered and
carried out in 14 cases including 24 rooms. An additional 31 premises
involving 178 rooms were disinfected as a result of Council housing
transfers.

During the current year, in co-operation with the Greenwich
and Woolwich Chest Clinics, the comprehensive checking of each
case on the respective registers was continued. Many cases about
which nothing has been heard for at least five years and who were
found to have removed from the district and many more considered
by the Chest Physicians to have recovered, were extracted from the
registers. The result can be seen by a comparison of the above table
with the combined totals of 1,723 pulmonary and 105 non-pulmonary
for Greenwich and Woolwich at the end of 1965.
CHEST CLINIC REPORTS
Greenwich Chest Clinic
I am indebted to Drs. P. Forgacs and D. G. Wraith, Consultant
Physicians at the Greenwich Chest Clinic, for the following Report
"Twenty-five new cases of pulmonary tuberculosis were notified
during the year. These included 17 males, of whom 13 were over the
age of 40, 7 females and one girl. The girl aged 11 and 1 female were
discovered as a result of our scheme for having X-rays of all contacts.
Three cases of non-pulmonary tuberculosis were notified, a boy of
7 with tuberculous infection of the knee and two females with
tuberculous glands.
One hundred and three ante-natal patients have been X-rayed
but none was found to have active tuberculosis. One hundred and