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Crayford 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Crayford]
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Tuberculosis.
| Age periods | New Cases | Deaths | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Respiratory | Non-Respiratory | Respirator | Non-Respiratory | |||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| 0 | 1 | — _ | — | _ | — | — | — | — |
| 1 | — | — | — | — | — | _ | — | — |
| 5 | — | 2 | — | 1 | — | _— | — | — |
| 15 | 8 | 6 | _ | 1 | — | 1 | — | — |
| 25 | 4 | 6 | 3 | — | 3 | 4 | — | — |
| 35 | 5 | 3 | _ | — | 4 | — | — | |
| 45 | 6 | 1 | — | — | 3 | — | — | — |
| 55 | 3 | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | — |
| 65 and upwards | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Totals | 28 | 18 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 5 | — | — |
Chest Clinics.
At West Hill Hospital, Dartford, and 65, Bexley
Road, Erith.
HOUSING APPLICANTS.
On a recommendation from the Health Committee
that special consideration be given to cases but forward
by the Medical Officer of Health involving Tuberculosis
in the applicants' family, the Council agreed to consider
such cases outside the normal points scheme.
Venereal Disease Clinic.
This was held at the County Hospital, West Hill,
Dartford.
PUBLIC CLEANSING.
During the year the Council entered into a new
agreement with the Borough of Bexley for the joint use
of their Cleansing Station, and the existing wartime
arrangement ceased from the date on which the new
arrangement took effect.
Facilities were available for the disinfection of
bedding following cases of Tuberculosis and Cancer, and
for the disinfestation of bedding of verminous persons and
those who had had scabies.
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