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SECTION V.
PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF TUBERCULOSIS.
The Tuberculosis Clinic is situated at 13, Katharine Street.
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 have on previous occasions called attention to the unsuitability
of the present premises. It is to be hoped that the endeavours of
the Committee to find alternative and more suitable accommodation
will soon be successful. Croydon is large enough and important
enough to consider seriously the erection of a Health Centre, as has
already been done by several London Boroughs, and in towns in
other parts of the country.
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 nine cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis and
48 of Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis were notified on Form A
(primary notifications); of these 120 males and 89 females were
Pulmonary cases, 30 males and 18 females Non-Pulmonary. In
addition, 61 Pulmonary cases and 14 Non-Pulmonary came to our
notice as new casesi otherwise than by notification.
The total number of new cases of Tuberculosis coming to the
knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during 1938 by notification
or otherwises was 332, as compared with 338 in 1937, 311
in 1936, 333 in 193-5, 325 in 1934, 346 in 1933, and 369 in 1932.
270 of these were cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis; 151 in
males and 119 in females. There were 12 fewer cases of Pulmonary
Tuberculosis in males, and 6 fewer in females than in 1937.
There were 25 cases of Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis among
children under 15 years as compared with 22 in 1937. The number
of cases in adults was 37 compared with 28 in 1937.