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Patients are also sent to the Middlesex County Council's
general hospitals and to numerous other voluntary hospitals and
sanatoria.
The total number of cases on the Tuberculosis Register at
the end of 1944 was 1,076, viz., pulmonary 843, non-pulmonary
233, an increase of 48 on the total for last year.
A table showing the history of cases of Tuberculosis during
the year will be found on Table F.
MORTUARY.
Ninety-two bodies were received at the mortuary.
DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACTS.
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 1944, as follows:—
Total number of Licences issued under the
Contagious Diseases of Animals Acts 0
Inspections made under the Contagious
Diseases of Animals Acts 26
(Pigs 261)
No action was necessary under the Tuberculosis Order, 1925.
One post-mortem examination on a. pig was carried out
during the year.