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SECTION V.
PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF TUBERCULOSIS.
The Tuberculosis Clinic is situated at 13, Katharine Street.
The premises are unsuitable, being cramped, noisy and necessitate
the climbing of a flight of stairs by patients. Sessions are held
daily in the mornings and afternoons except on Monday mornings
and Thursday afternoons. An evening session is held on Tuesdays.
The Clinic is primarily a diagnostic, advisory and distributing centre.
To it come patients sent by private doctors, hospitals, etc., also
cases and contacts under observation and cases under treatment at
home. From it patients are drafted to various Sanatoria and Hospitals
or back to their private practitioner.
I am indebted to Dr. J. C. McMillan, the Assistant Medical
Officer of Health for Tuberculosis, for the statistical part of this
section of the report.
Notification of Tuberculosis.
One hundred and ninety-four cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
and 31 of Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis were notified on Form A
(primary notifications), of these 93 males and 101 females were Pulmonary
cases, 18 males and 13 females Non-Pulmonary. In addition,
61 Pulmonary cases and 25 Non-Pulmonary came to our notice
as new cases otherwise than by notification.
The total number of new cases of tuberculosis coming to the
knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during 1936 by notification
or otherwise, was 311, as compared with 333 in 1935, 325
in 1934, 346 in 1933, 369 in 1932, 412 in 1931, and 387 in 1930.
255 of these were cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis. 119 in
males and 136 in females. There were 31 fewer cases of Pulmonary
Ttuberculosis in males, and 17 more in females than in 1935. This
increase in female Tuberculosis, especially among young adult members.
has been a noticeable feature of the statistics in London and
its environs, in recent years.
There were 18 cases of Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis among
children under 15 years as compared with 26 in 1935. The number
of cases in adults was 38, the same as in 1935.