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Marylebone 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]

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Tuberculosis Care Committee.
The Committee continued to meet fortnightly throughout the year, Dr.
Anderson, Miss Baker and Miss Kenion attending and assisting in every way possible.
The representatives of the Council on this Committee were : Councillors Dr. C. A.
Fuller and G. B. Ramsay. Table 47 contains a list of the members of the Committee
in addition to the Council's representatives.

Table: TABLE47.Tuberculosis Care Committee.

TABLE47.

Tuberculosis Care Committee.

NAME.REPRESENTS.
Bennett, Councillor J. (Chairman)Charity Organisation Society.
Broadbent, Miss M. E. (Hon. Secretary)Invalid Children's Aid Association.
Bell, MissLondon County Council and School Care Committee.
Bennett, Miss A.M.Paddington & St. Marylebone District Nursing Association.
Bowen, Miss E. A. (M.B.E.)War Pensions Committee & United Services Fund.
Davis, Councillor Mrs. E.Public Assistance Committee.
Fenn, Miss D. M.Margaret Street Hospital.
Higgin, Miss E.Registration.
Lazarus, Miss 0.Central Jewish Synagogue.
Lesser, Mr. H. E.London Insurance Committee.
Senior AlmonerMiddlesex Hospital.
Simpson, Dr. R. H. Wetherall, MissDivisional School Medical Officer to the LondonCounty Council.St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington.
Winterbottom, Mrs. G. (resigned May, 1937).The Working Classes.
Fisher, Mr. J. (appointed May, 1937)ditto.

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DISINFECTION AND DISINSECTION.
The methods employed were substantially the same as in previous years ;
articles suitable for treatment by steam were dealt with in the Washington-Lyons
Disinfector, while for rooms either formalin or sulphur was generally employed.

Table: Articles.The number of articles disinfected is shown hereunder :—TABLE 48.

Articles.

The number of articles disinfected is shown hereunder :—

TABLE 48.

Compulsorily Notifiable Diseases.Phthisis.Measles.Vermin. Other Causes.Total.
Totals6,7017751023,153 2,22032,859

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The number of journeys made by the disinfecting vans during the year ended
December, 1937, was :—
January 122 August 130
February 138 September 114
March 103 October 78
April 98 November 103
May 93 December 116
June 95
July 101 1,291
The number of journeys made during 1936 was 1,324.