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Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1925.
These regulations make it possible to require that an individual suffering from tuberculosis
shall discontinue employment in the milk trade. No formal action was necessary
during the year.
Tuberculosis Dispensary.
Tuberculosis Officer, Dr. G. A. Back. Address and telephone number of Dispensary
Barnes House, Camden Road, N.W.1. Gulliver 2371.

Report on the Work carried out at the Tuberculosis Dispensary.
New Patients and Contacts.
There has been a slight increase in the number of notifications since last year and the
number of new cases dealt with at the Dispensary shows a further increase due to the larger
number of patients sent for diagnosis.
The number of new contacts attending has increased from 233 to 354. The total number
of contacts of the 361 cases notified during the year was 637 and of these 48 per cent. had been
examined at the Dispensary and 13 per cent. elsewhere by the end of March, 1948.
Institutional Treatment.
This is provided by the London County Council in sanatoria, special hospitals and in
the tuberculosis wards of their general hospitals. Application for admission is made as a rule
on the appropriate form by the Tuberculosis Officer or the resident staff of the voluntary
hospitals, but in emergency patients may be admitted by application to the County M.O.H.
by telephone. Altogether 324 applications were accepted. Of these 156 were admissions to
General Hospitals, 151 to sanatoria, and 17 to various hospitals for observation for diagnosis.