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PNEUMONIA.
Figures with regard to notification and information as to methods of prevention,
etc., adopted in relation to this disease will be found on pages 43 and 80.
The services of the nurses were requisitioned in 69 cases and 1,671 visits were
paid.
TUBERCULOSIS.
In all 223 notifications were received, 187 relating to pulmonary tuberculosis,
the remainder (36) to cases in which structures other than the lungs were affected.
The table given on page 51 contains the information required by the Ministry
of Health with regard to notifications. Notifications on Form B relate to school
children. The number, it will be noted, was 13, as against 17 in 1924.
From time to time reference is made to the difficulty associated with the
obtaining of notifications sufficiently early, and the following figures are introduced
because they are interesting in this connection. They relate, as will be
seen, to cases in which death had taken place before the fact that the individual
was suffering from the disease had been brought to the notice of the Medical
Officer of Health, as required by the regulations :—
1. Total number of deaths from tuberculosis in the Borough 93
2. The number of cases unnotified or notified at death 24
3. The number of cases notified within a month of death 16
4. The number of cases notified within three months of death 7
5. The number of cases notified within six months of death 5
Treatment of Tuberculosis.—Of the cases notified 186 received some form of
institutional treatment, and during the year every effort was made to obtain
admission to sanatoria of cases deemed suitable for such treatment. Of the total
new cases notified 101 were insured persons; of those 46 were admitted to sanatorium
or hospital treatment, and 15 to St. Marylebone Hospital. Non-insured
persons numbered 122, of whom 33 (16 being children) received sanatorium treatment
and 12 were admitted to the St. Marylebone Hospital. Nurses were sent
in to 34 cases and 272 visits were paid.