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3. Other Preventive Measures.
(a) Food handlers in factories—restaurants, etc., will
be put off work until certified free from infection by
the Medical Officer of Health. Special arrangements
have been made so that contacts of infected
cases who are excluded from employment on the
Medical Officer of Health's instructions can apply
at the Health Department for a certificate to obtain
National Health Insurance Benefit.
(b) Infants attending nurseries will be excluded until
certified free from infection by the Medical Officer of
Health.
(c) Infected school children and child contacts in the
same family will be excluded from school until
certified free from infection by the Medical Officer
of Health."
This leaflet is given to the contacts of all cases when
Dysentery occurs in a house.
The rehousing of families living in overcrowded conditions,
and those handicapped by medical conditions, continues to be
one of the major problems. The extreme shortage of appropriate
facilities causes the provision of satisfactory alternative
rehousing accommodation to be so slow as to fall far short of the
demand.
Almost as quickly as those already on the waiting lists
obtain other accommodation, either from the L.C.C. or the
Borough Council, new applicants replace them on the lists.
This is shown clearly by the figures of 86 overcrowded families,
comprising 415 persons, rehoused during the year; but 104
families of 449 persons were added to the overcrowding list
during the same period. A comparison of the figures for cases
of tuberculosis, and other medical grounds reveals a similar
situation.
The housing position generally has brought the public to
realise that unless they can obtain a priority on the housing lists,
they stand little or no chance of securing better accommodation.
There is, therefore, a growing tendency for those seeking rehousing
to strive to obtain from their general practitioners
medical certificates as evidence of their claims for priority
treatment.
The Borough Council and especially the Housing Committee
of the Council, are fully aware of this great shortage, hence their