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The other tubercular diseases together accounted for 18 deaths, giving a
death-rate of 0.23 per 1,000. It was 0.27 last year. Of these deaths, four
were residents of the district in the Edmonton Workhouse. The total deaths
from these diseases in the Edmonton Workhouse numbered seven.
In this way, tuberculosis contributed a total death-rate of 1.02 per 1,000
of our own population, or 11.0 per cent. of all the deaths, excluding strangers;
it was 9.8 last year.
The Women Inspectors paid to consumptives 237 visits and re-visits
during the year, compared with 593 the year before, and also 18 visits and
re-visits to other cases of tubercle. The disinfection of the room lately occupied
by the patient, and of his clothes and bedding, is carried out. There was, as
before, some overlapping of visits with those of the County official.
Tuberculous Meat and Milk.—See Section VI., "Unsound Food."
Institutional Accommodation.—I have received the following information
with reference to this:—
1.—Edmonton Workhouse and Old Infirmary.—A few chronic cases
are retained here, but all cases likely to benefit are transferred to Grosvenor
Sanatorium, Kennington, near Ashford, Kent.
2.—Epileptic Colony.—When found to be tubercular, a man is sent
back to his own area.