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tuberculosis is stated to be a factor, and I take this opportunity of
recording my appreciation of his helpful collaboration. There must
be few postal deliveries that do not contain at least one plaintive
letter from a housing applicant who begs me to support his/her
claim because tuberculosis is a factor. Such applicants are interviewed
or visited in order to verify their claims, and a report is
obtained from the Chest Physician with regard to the activity of
the disease and the infectivity of the patient. It is only after
establishing that the housing conditions are such as to be a source
of danger to home contacts that the name is added to the Housing
Officer's list of applicants who are recommended for special
consideration because active tuberculosis is a factor.
Since this collaboration has been in operation (i.e., since 1950)
some 43 of these cases have been re-housed by the Housing
Committee : 5 in 1950 ; 20 in 1951 ; 7 in 1952 ; and 11 in 1953.
Active-T.B.-Factor List.
•There are still on the Active-Tuberculosis-Factor List some
37 cases in which re-housing is recommended on public health
grounds because the present home conditions are conducive to the
spread of infection, and an analysis of these 37 cases is summarised
in tabular form below.

Sleeping Accommodation of Patient.
Share Bed 28
Separate Room 5
Share Room/Separate Bed 4
Subsequent Cases of Tuberculosis in same House since Patient on Housing List.
In two cases there have been two home contacts notified.
In three cases there has been one home contact notified.
Quiescent-T.B.-Factor List.
This is a second list of housing applicants (seven in number)
in whose present home there is a person in the quiescent stage of
pulmonary tuberculosis.