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New contacts examined during 1959 (not included in the above
figures):—
Non-tuberculous, 271.
Tuberculous, 2.
B.C.G. Vaccination of contacts, 96.
Number of patients who completed a course of hospital or sanitorium
treatment during 1959, 45.
Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1925.
Section 172, Public Health Act, 1936.
No action was taken by the Local Authority under these
Regulations during 1959.
Mass X-ray.
A Unit of the South East London Mass X-Ray Service visited
the area at various times during 1959. 12,261 persons were
examined ; 5,527 men and 6,734 women.
162 people with abnormalities were discovered, but of these only
50 required treatment. Further analysis of these cases showed that 44
were considered to be tuberculous, of which 18 were previously
known cases, 17 required close supervision or treatment, 9 occasional
supervision, and the remaining 6 were cardio vascular conditions.
Although only 17 serious cases were discovered, nevertheless 17
sources of production of the tubercle bacillus have been or will be
eliminated, and thus a material advance in the defeat of tuberculosis
has been achieved.
Whooping Cough.
Fifty cases were notified during the year, as against one hundred
and fifty-two cases in 1958. Thirteen cases were admitted to hospital
and the remainder home-nursed.
No deaths from this disease were recorded in the area during
1959.
The County Medical Officer informs me that 1,192 children
resident in the area were immunised against Whooping Cough during
1959.