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PUBLIC HEALTH (PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS)
REGULATIONS, 1925.
No action was required during the period under review in
respect of tuberculous employees in the milk trade.
PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1925, SECTION 62.
There was no need, during 1937, for the Council to take
action with a view to securing an Order of the Court for
the compulsory removal to hospital of a case of Pulmonary
Tuberculosis.
DIPHTHERIA ANTI-TOXIN.
A supply of Diphtheria Anti-toxin is kept for the use of
Doctors practising in the District.
This is supplied free on the certificate of the Medical Officer
of Health that the circumstances of the case render this
desirable. In other cases the cost price is charged.
ISOLATION HOSPITAL.
For Isolation Hospital purposes this District is served by
the West Kent Joint Isolation Hospital.
This Hospital is administered by the West Kent Joint
Hospital Board, and serves the Boroughs of Bromley and
Beckenham, and the Urban Districts of Chislehurst and Sidcup
. and Orpington.
The Board have provided four motor ambulances for the
removal of cases.
Cases of Smallpox are also removed to the West Kent Joint
Smallpox Hospital, maintained by the West Kent Joint Hospital
Board, on a separate site from the ordinary Infectious Diseases
Hospital.