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C(6). Laboratory Facilities.
Examination of pathological specimens, and other laboratory
work for the District, are undertaken by the Kent County
Laboratory, Sessions House, Maidstone.
480 specimens were dealt with during the year.
C (7) • TUBERCULOSIS.
C(7)a. Treatment and Hospital Accommodation.
The Kent County Council are responsible for cases of
Tuberculosis occurring within the district, and also for
Sanatorium treatment and hospital accommodation for Erith
residents.
A dispensary is held weekly at 65 Bexley Road, Erith,
by a whole-time Tuberculosis Officer, and 90 beds at the
Kettle well Hospital are now available for cases from this and
neighbouring towns.
A portable X-ray apparatus is in use each Friday at the
Erith dispensary so that X-ray examinations are now carried
out in the borough.
In the tables which follow, particulars of new cases of
Tuberculosis, and of all deaths from the disease in the area,
during 1944 are shown in table 1, whilst table 2 shows the
quarterly statements of cases on the register, together with
the position at the 31st December, 1944.