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TUBERCULOSIS.
PUBLIC HEALTH (PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS)
REGULATIONS, 1925, and
SECTION 62, PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1925.
No occasion has arisen in the course of the year to put these
powers into action.
Sanatorium provision for all forms of Tuberculosis in
Hornsey is made by the Middlesex County Council.
There are 570 beds available solely for .Middlesex under the
Middlesex County Council scheme for the treatment of
Tuberculosis in sanatoria, namely:—
Harefield Sanatorium, Uxbridge 378 beds
Clare Hall Sanatorium, South Minims 186 ,,
Victoria Home, Margate 6 ,,
Pulmonary cases in excess of these numbers and nonpulmonary
cases are maintained by the County Council in
sanatoria and hospitals in various parts of the country.
The total number of cases on the Tuberculosis Register at
the end of 1936 was 756, viz., pulmonary 570, non-pulmonary
186, an increase of 16 on the total for last year.
A table showing the history of Tuberculosis cases during
the year will.be found on pp.
MORTUARY.
Thirty-one bodies were received at the mortuary and inquests
held on 27 of them.
DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACT.
Mr. F. G. Buxton, the Veterinary Inspector, reports that
during the year he made 23 visits to piggeries and inspected 491
pigs. Fifty-two removal licences were issued under the Diseases
of Animals Acts.
No action was necessary under the Tuberculosis Order, 1925.