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I give diagrams showing (A) comparative returns of
deaths from Tuberculosis during the past 11 years, distinguishing
those due to Pulmonary Tuberculosis from
those due to other forms of Tuberculosis ; (B) the percentage
of total deaths each year due to (1) all forms of Tuberculosis,
and (2) Pulmonary Tuberculosis, and (C) death
rates per 10,000 of the population from (1) all forms of
Tuberculosis, and (2) Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
All cases of Tuberculosis are visited, and in the case
of those suffering from the pulmonary form of the disease,
disinfectants and pocket sputum cups are supplied,
together with cards giving short directions as to the mode
of life, and the precautions to be taken to prevent, as far
as possible the infection of other inmates of the house.
Where deaths have occurred from Tuberculous disease,
or on the removal of a person who has been suffering from
such disease, the house is disinfected by the Sanitary
Authority, and such disinfection is carried out at other
times on request.
No Sanatorium or Tuberculosis Dispensary has been
provided by the Sanitary Authority, but those persons
who are entitled to benefit under the National Insurance
Act, have received Sanatorium treatment in 19 cases, and
domiciliary treatment in other cases. Other cases which
were not entitled to benefit under the National Insurance
Act, have received treatment either as in-patients or outpatients
at one or other of the London Hospitals.
Of the 17 cases notified as suffering from some form
of Tuberculosis other than Pulmonary, 10 were at the
time of notification inmates of a London Hospital, or some
other institution of a similar nature.
The facilities for treatment of persons suffering from
Tuberculosis have been greatly augmented by the establishment
of a Dispensary by the Kent County Council in
the District, in January this year.
The educational value of a stay in a Sanatorium is
already becoming evident; those cases who have had the
advantage of such a stay, have learned by practical experience
the best mode of life for themselves, and the measures
best calculated to minimise the danger of their being
a source of infection to other people, and they have, as far
as possible, after their return home, put in practice the
lessons learnt by them.