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PHTHISIS—PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS.
Ninety-nine deaths occurred from this disease, representing a
death-rate of .8 per 1,000 of the population.
The number of cases notified to me by poor law medical officers
during the year was 122.
Each case living in the district, on first being notified, has
been visited, all particulars obtained, and advice given verbally by
myself.
Also a card of printed instructions has been left with the
parents or friends of the patient.
The patient is afterwards visited about once a month by Dr.
Kirkhope, who inquires whether the instructions are being carried
out, and if they are not he tries to induce the patient and his
friends to do so.
The Public Health Department supplies disinfectants, with
directions for their use, as well as pocket spit-bottles (in certain
cases, i.e. those patients who are going about), disinfects bedding,
clothing, &c., and rooms when vacated by the patient through
death or removal.
We have no sanatorium to which phthisical patients can be
sent, but these poor-law cases are sent to the West Ham Infirmary