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The rates are calculated per 100,000 inhabitants.
Seventy-three of the deaths from pulmonary disease occurred at
home, 31 in hospitals and sanatoriums, 81 in infirmaries, and 13 in
asylums.
Deaths from other forms occurred at home 11, in hospitals 23, in
infirmaries 5, and in asylums 2.
In consequence of the increase in the work, it was necessary to
appoint a second tuberculosis visitor, and the city was divided into two
parts, Miss Sanders taking the southern part and Miss Smith, one of the
sanitary inspectors, the northern. Their duties are. acting under the
Medical Officer of Health, to make such enquiries and take such steps
as are necessary or desirable for investigating the source of infection,
for preventing the spread of infection, and for removing conditions
favourable thereto. It is necessary, therefore, to keep tuberculous
patients under constant observation. Members of families, or others
who are suspected of being infected, or who have been exposed to the
danger, have also to be kept under observation, and brought under
medical examination and treatment where necessary.
The visitors also arrange for hospital, sanatorium, or convalescent
treatment, and endeavour in suitable cases to see that additional
food, &c., is supplied through School Care Committees, the Insurance
Committee, the Guardians, and various charitable agencies. Yery little
information is obtainable about the casual and homeless consumptive,
and full particulars are not always obtainable with respect to a
number of those notified from private addresses, for various reasons,
such as in the case of persons who have been in lodgings for short
periods only, and do not return on discharge from hospital or infirmary,
and persons notified from hotels where the stay was temporary.