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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Orpington 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]

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Table: The number of new cases of Tuberculosis notified together with the number of deaths occurring in the past four years is shown in the following Table:—

The number of new cases of Tuberculosis notified together with the number of deaths occurring in the past four years is shown in the following Table:—

Year. .Cases notified.Deaths
PulmonaryNon-PulmonaryPulmonaryNon-Pulmonary
1934 (nine months)215112
1935354193
19363417155
19373420192

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PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1925, SECTION 62.
On no occasion during the year was it necessary for the
Council to take steps to secure an Order for the compulsory
removal to Hospital of a person suffering from Pulmonary
Tuberculosis.
PUBLIC HEALTH (PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS)
REGULATIONS, 1925.
No action was required during the year under the powers
conferred by the above Regulations in respect of Tuberculous
employees in the milk trade.
NON-NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
Whooping Cough.— No deaths were registered from
Whooping Cough during the year.
Influenza.—Eight deaths were registered during the year,
as compared with seven last year,
DIPHTHERIA IMMUNISATION CLINIC.
A Diphtheria Immunisation Clinic was established by the
late Bromley Rural District Council, and was first opened on
the 24th May, 1929.
The purpose of this Clinic is to test the susceptibility, or
otherwise, of children to Diphtheria, and to immunise those
giving a positive result.