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Notifications.— Table 7 (p. 27) gives information regarding notifications of pulmonary and
non-pulmonary tuberculosis received during the year. Three hundred and thirty-one visits for enquiries
into housing and sanitary conditions were paid by one of the women sanitary inspectors to new cases
and those moving into the Borough from other areas. The total number of cases of tuberculosis
remaining on the register at the 31st December, 1953, was 893.
Venereal Diseases.—Continued assistance was given to the propaganda campaign for drawing public
attention to the dangers of these conditions and to the adequate facilities which exist for those in
need of treatment.
Scabies.—The Council's Cleansing Station in Lisson Grove dealt with 104 cases of scabies : adults
55 (men 35, women 20) ; children 49 (boys 27, girls 22). Domiciliary visits paid in connection with
St. Marylebone cases numbered seven.
Impetigo.—No cases of impetigo were treated at the Cleansing Station.
Disinfection.—During the year, 224 rooms and 2,600 articles of bedding (mattresses, blankets, sheets,
bolsters, pillows, etc.) together with 956 books, were disinfected, and 437 dressing drums from a
local hospital were sterilised.
The Department continued to be called upon by residents in the Borough to disinfect worn clothing
intended for despatch to foreign countries, although invariably there had been no contact with
infectious disease. During the year 208 certificates, relating to a total of 2,341 articles, were issued.
From the 3rd November, 1953, the form of certificate was varied to indicate that no infectious disease
had been reported for at least one month as occurring at the premises from which the clothing was
purported to have come. From that date disinfection was carried out only when clothing had actually
been in contact with infectious disease.
Bacteriological Examinations.—Table 9 shows the number of specimens examined for the purposes
of diagnosis and indicates also the organisms in relation to which the examinations were made.