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The total number of cases on the Tuberculosis Register at
the end of 19.29 was 553, an increase of 39 during the year.
Dr. Dobson, the Middlesex Tuberculosis Officer, has kindly
supplied the following particulars of Hornsey cases of
Tuberculosis :- Non-
Insured Insured. Total.
Total number of new Hornsey cases examined for first
time at the Local Tuberoulosis Dispensary during
1929 and diagnosed as suffering from Tuberculosis 78 — 78
Diagnosed as not suffering from Tuberculosis 92 — 92
Undiagnosed and remaining under observation 1 — 1
Number of Hornsey persons suffering from Tuberculosis
treated at the Dispensary during 1929 166 133 299
Number of Tuberculosis cases transferred into Hornsey
District during 1929 8 8
(in addition to 171 above).
Total number under supervision or observation on
31/12/29 118 83 201
No action was taken during the year in regard to employees
in the milk trade under the Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis)
Regulations, 1925, or in regard to compulsory removal to
hospital of persons suffering from infectious pulmonary tuberculosis
under the Public Health Act, 1925 (sec. 62).
Details of notifications of, and deaths from, tuberculosis are
given in Table G, page 38.
(2) Maternity.—Arrangements are made for the admission
of maternity cases to the North Middlesex Hospital,
Edmonton, and to the Royal Free Hospital.
(3) Children. (4) Orthopedic. (5) Other Hospitals.
No hospitals, general or special, are provided or subsidised
by the Council. There is adequate hospital provision for the
needs of the area in the Hornsey Central Hospital (48 beds), the
North Middlesex Hospital (982 l>eds and cots), and the great
system of Voluntary Hospitals, general and special, in the
London area. Unmarried mothers and their infants are provided
for at Beacon Lodge, Eastern Road.
The Council has made the following contributions during
the year:—
Hornsey Central Hospital, £100.
Home for Unmarried Mothers, Beacon Lodge, £50.
Hornsey Nursing Association 25 gns., and from Education
Committee, £5.