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INFLUENZA.
This disease showed no epidemic tendencies during the year. Th'e deaths
certified as due to Influenza numbered 13, as against 42 in 1927.
PNEUMONIA.
Figures with regard to notification will be found on page 67, and information
as to methods of prevention, etc., adopted in relation to this disease will be found
in previous reports.
The services of the nurses were requisitioned in 12 cases, and 236 visits were
paid.
TUBERCULOSIS.
In all 161 notifications were received, 139 relating to pulmonary tuberculosis,
the remainder (22) to cases in which structures other than the lungs were affected.
The table given on page 41 contains the information required by the Ministry
of Health with regard to notifications. Notifications on Form B relate to school
children. Of these as in 1927 only 1 was received.
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 92
2. The number of cases unnotified or notified at death 14
3. The number of cases notified within a month of death 14
4. The number of cases notified within three months of death 10
5. The number of cases notified within six months of death 3
Treatment of Tuberculosis.—Of the cases notified 192 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 92 were insured persons; of these 44 were admitted to sanatorium
or hospital treatment, and 24 to St. Marylebone Hospital. Non-insured
persons numbered 69, of whom 34 (11 being children) received sanatorium treatment
and 15 (4 being children) were admitted to St. Marylebone Hospital. Nurses
were sent in to 15 cases and 263 visits were paid.
Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1925.—In no case
was it necessary for action to be taken under these regulations.