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INFLUENZA.
This disease was less prevalent than in 1934, though correct information as to
the number of cases was, of course, unobtainable. The deaths certified as due to
Influenza numbered 9, as against 12 in the previous year.
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 79 and 32.
The services of the nurses were requisitioned in 12 cases and 242 visits were
paid. The number of deaths certified as due to all forms of this disease was 41.
FOOD POISONING.
Only three notifications of food-poisoning or suspected food-poisoning were
received under Section 7 of the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1932,
as against 31 in 1934 and 13 in 1933. Enquiries were made into each case. Pork
pie, sardine and beef each came under suspicion, but no definite evidence as to the
responsibility of these articles was obtainable. In no case was it necessary to
remove the patient to hospital and all quickly recovered.
TUBERCULOSIS.
In all 112 notifications were received, 93 relating to pulmonary tuberculosis,
the remainder (25) to cases in which structures other than the lungs were affected.
The table given on page 38 contains the information required by the Ministry
of Health with regard to notifications.
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 72
2. The number of cases unnotified or notified at death 18
3. The number of cases notified within a month of death 11
4. The number of cases notified within three months of death 7
5. The number of cases notified within six months of death 3
Treatment of Tulberculosis.—Of the cases notified 234 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 65 were insured persons and were admitted and readmitted from time
to time during the year to sanatoria and hospitals for treatment, the total admissions
numbering 88. Non-insured persons numbered 47, the total admissions for
theee patients being 58, including 8 children. Nurses were sent in to 10 cases
and 522 home visits were paid.