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31
Cases
Treated Vision Vision Total
unimpaired. impaired. blindness. . Deaths.
Notified.
In hospital
At home. or nursing
home.
5 2 3 5 0 0 0
TUBERCULOSIS.
PUBLIC HEALTH (PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS)
REGULATIONS.
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 582 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 198 ,,
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 1937 was 805, viz., pulmonary 605, non-pulmonary
200, an increase of 49 on the total for last year.
A table showing the history of Tuberculosis cases during
the year will be found on Table H.
MORTUARY.
Ninety-four bodies were received at the mortuary and
inquests held on 29 of them.