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Paddington 1928
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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Of the patients who removed from the Borough during 1928, the new addresses were
obtainable in 61 instances, and particulars of the cases were transmitted to the Medical
Officers of Health of the respective districts.
In 1928, 12 cases of patients who had removed into the Borough from other districts
were added to the register.
The number of cases remaining on the Tuberculosis Register at the close of 1928 was
1,570 as compared with 1,577 at the close of the year 1927.
| Age Periods. | New Cases. | Deaths. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | N on-Pulmonary. | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| ___ | — | _ | _ | |||||
| — | ||||||||
| 7 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 1 | ||||||||
| 19 | — | — | ||||||
| — | ||||||||
| 1 | ||||||||
| — | ||||||||
| 1 | — | I | 1 | — | 1 | |||
Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1925.
By virtue of these regulations persons who are aware that they are suffering from tuberculosis
of the respiratory tract may not enter upon any employment or occupation in connection
with a dairy which would involve the milking of cows, the treatment of milk or the handling
of vessels used for containing milk.
Furthermore, if a local authority, on the report in writing of their Medical Officer of Health,
are satisfied that a person residing in their district who is engaged in any such occupation
mentioned above is suffering from tuberculosis of the respiratory tract and is in an infectious
state, they may by notice in writing require such person to discontinue his employment or
occupation on or before the date specified in the notice, such date being not less than seven
days after the service of such notice, and such person shall thereupon comply with the said
notice.
Aggrieved persons have the right of appeal to a court of summary jurisdiction, and in
every case adequate compensation has to be paid to every person who suffers damage from
the exercise of the powers of the regulations in any matter as to which he is not himself in
default.
No use has so far been made of these regulations.