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Infective Diseases.
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clinics for the immunisation of children at some of their schools
in the Borough. The results have been encouraging and 4,017
children have been injected at these school Clinics. The total
number attending all the Clinics during the year was, therefore,
5,862.
Some years ago the Council decided to supply immunising
material free of charge to general practitioners. During the
year 89 children have been immunised under this arrangement.
Tuberculosis.
The number of new cases which came to the notice of the
Department during the year was 618, compared with 522 in 1940
and 535 in 1939. 531 were pulmonary and 87 non-pulmonary
tuberculosis. 231 deaths were certified as due to diseases of a
tuberculous nature, the death rate being TOO. In 1940 there
were 242 deaths and in 1939, 221, from this disease.
The 618 new cases were added to the Notification Register
and 650 who had removed, recovered or died were taken off, the
number remaining on the Register at the end of the year being
2,154.
The two Tuberculosis Dispensaries which are at the Municipal
Buildings, Wandsworth, and 114, Gosberton Road, Balham,
have operated throughout the year, and 1,294 new cases attended.
Of these 310 were diagnosed as suffering from tuberculosis, 68
were suspected and 916 were non-tuberculous. Of the 1,294
new cases examined, 265 were contacts, 33 of whom were found
to be suffering from tuberculosis. The number of cases remaining
on the Dispensary Register at the end of 1941 was 1,502, compared
with 1,449 in 1940. The total attendances at the Dispensaries
was 3,272.
446 patients received institutional treatment. 2,709 attendances
were made for light and other special treatment and 547
X-ray examinations were made. The number of personal consultations
with doctors was 1,402. Home visits made by the
Tuberculosis Officers totalled 630 and the Health Visitors made
4,812 visits. 977 specimens of sputum were examined.