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Crayford 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Crayford]
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| Age periods | New Cases | Deaths | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Respiratory | Non-Retpiratorv | Respiratory | Non» Respiratory | |||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| 0 | — | — | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5 | 1 | 3 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | 4 | 6 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| 25 | 2 | 4 | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| 35 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 45 | 4 | 2 | 1 | — | 2 | — | — | — |
| 55 | 2 | 1 | — | — | 5 | 1 | — | — |
| 65 and uowards | 2 | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| Totals | 20 | 22 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 2 | — | — |
Chest Clinics.
At West Hill Hospital, Dartford, and 65, Bexley Road,
Erith.
Housing Applicants.
Special consideration is given to cases put forward by
the Medical Officer of Health involving tuberculosis or other
physical disability in the applicants' families and such cases
are considered outside the normal points scheme.
Cases investigated during the year—24.
Applicants recommended for rehousing—3.
No. of families granted houses on account of Tuberculosis—9.
CRAYFORD TUBERCULOSIS CARE COMMITTEE.
The Crayford Tuberculosis Care Committee in association
with the Kent Council of Social Service has continued to
function during the year. It is perhaps significant to note
that the same number of cases have been assisted as in 1952.
i.e. 39, although 19 of these were new cases. Clothing, coal
supplies and fares to visit relatives in Sanatoria had once
again formed the bulk of the assistance given by the Committee.
Other cases involved arrears of rent, mortgages and
the like. Many people have approached the Committee for
advice, and indeed it has often been brought home to the
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