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SECTION V.
PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF TUBERCULOSIS.
The Tuberculosis Clinic is situated at 13, Katharine Street.
The premises are not suitable, being too small in extent and inconvenient
in arrangement. In addition, as they abut on a very busy
thoroughfare, the noise makes examination of patients difficult.
The Committee have had under consideration the finding of better
accommodation, but up to the end of the year no final decision had
been arrived at. 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.
Two hundred and twenty-nine cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
and 31 of Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis were notified on Form A
(primary notifications); of these 134 males and 95 females were Pulmonary
cases, 16 males and 15 females Non-Pulmonary. In addition,
59 Pulmonary cases and 19 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 1937 by notification
or otherwise, was 338, as compared with 311 in 1936, 333
in 1935, 325 in 1934, 346 in 1933, 369 in 1932, and 412 in 1931.
288 of these were cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis; 163 in
males and 125 in females. There were 44 more cases of Pulmonary
Tuberculosis in males, and 11 fewer in females than in 1936.
There were 22 cases of Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis among
children under 15 years as compared with 18 in 1936. The number
of cases in adults was 28 compared with 38 in 1936.