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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 411 beds available solely for Middlesex under the
Middlesex County Council scheme for the treatment of
Tuberculosis in sanatoria, namely: —
Harefield Sanatorium, Uxbridge 189 beds For
Clare Hall Sanatorium, South Mimms 177 ,, pulmonary
White House. Milford, Hants. 39 ,, cases
Victoria Home, Margate 6 ,, For non-
pulmonary cases
Pulmonary and non-pulmonary cases in excess of these
numbers 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 1939 was 844, viz., pulmonary 641, non-pulmonary 203,
a decrease of 2 on the total for last year.
A table showing the history of eases of Tuberculosis during
the year will be found on Table H.
MORTUARY.
Eighty-five bodies were received at the mortuary and
inquests held on 31 of them.
DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACT.
Mr. F. G. Buxton, the Veterinary Inspector, has kindly
supplied me with details of his work in the Borough under the
Diseases of Animals Acts and Orders during 1939 as follows:—
Inspections made under the Diseases
of Animals Acts 12
Animals inspected 251 pigs
Removal Licences issued 29
No action was necessary under the Tuberculosis Order, 1925.