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(d) Donations from various local Sports Clubs.
(e) Donations from private individuals and from proceeds
raised at Whist Drives and Dances organised by the
Social Sub-Committee.
Equally important in the matter of after-care is that of dealing
with the large number of advanced cases who are, in the majority
of instances, in a highly infectious condition and not infrequently
living under overcrowded home conditions. For these practically
no remedy hitherto existed, except the workhouse, but by virtue
of Section 62 of the Public Health Act, 1925, local health authorities
have become vested with powers where, in the opinion of the
Medical Officer of Health the conditions of a tuberculous patient
at home are inimical to the best interests of his or her dependents
to secure such patient's removal compulsorily or otherwise to a
suitable institution and to there detain him or her until circumstances
have changed. It only remains to point out that where
such steps become necessary, local institutional arrangements
should be available.
Compulsory disinfection of all houses after death from tuberculosis
is now practised throughout the district under Section 5
of the Infectious Disease (Prevention) Act, 1890.
DISINFECTION.
This subject was discussed at considerable length in my report
for 1924.