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Posthospital
rehabilitation
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second half of the year 347. The average number boarded-out at any one time
during the year was 326, compared with between 130 and 140 before 1939, 180 in
1946, 230 in 1947 and 257 in 1948. The total number of children accommodated
during the year was 682, of whom 403 were new cases and 279 were children whose
stay extended from 1948.
Children with a history of tuberculosis were accommodated during the year at
residential open-air schools for delicate children. No child with "open" or infectious
tuberculosis was, however, admitted. The schools in use at the beginning of 1949
were:—
Burrow Hill Colony School, Frimley;
George Rainey School, St. Leonard's-on-Sea;
Wanstead House, Cliftonville;
Swanley Residential School, White Oak Hospital, Swanley;
Kathleen Schlesinger School, near Henley;
Bowden House School, near Seaford; and
Wainwright Residential School, Broadstairs.
At the end of 1949 the number of children with a history of tuberculosis
accommodated at these schools was 34.
Residential
open-air
schools
The Council submitted to the Minister of Health a proposal under Section 28
of the National Health Service Act, 1946, to provide vaccination with B.C.G.
(Bacillus Calmette-Guerin) vaccine, by chest physicians, of (a) persons known to
have been in contact with tuberculous infection, or (b) selected groups of the
population, subject to the necessary preliminary tests.
The proposal was approved by the Minister and it is intended to bring the
arrangements into operation, initially for tuberculosis contacts, in 1950.
B.C.G.
Vaccination
The Council co-operated with the Tuberculin Survey Committee of the Medical
Research Council in a survey to assist in determining the prevalence of tuberculous
infection in the population of England and Wales. In association with the head
teachers of certain schools, the chest physicians, the Medical Directors of the Mass
Miniature Radiography Units of the South-East and the South-West Metropolitan
Regional Hospital Boards, and a medical officer appointed by the Medical
Research Council, arrangements were made for tests to be carried out in the
Boroughs of Fulham and Southwark in respect of school children aged 5 to 15 years
and other persons not attending school up to the age of 20 years. The results are
not yet available.
Tuberculin
sensitivity

In the report for 1948, reference was made to the Council's intention to provide
special residential accommodation in the form of "night sanatoria" for patients,
who, while well enough to be discharged from hospital to work during the day,
needed lodging and facilities for rest under medical supervision, and to arrange
with the Disabled Persons Employment Corporation for the provision of workshop
facilities in connection with these sanatoria.
Night
sanatoria
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