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Prevention of Blindness.
No action has been taken under Section 176 of the Public
Health Act, 1936, for the prevention of blindness or for the treatment
of persons suffering from any disease or injury to the eyes.
Tuberculosis.
Table VII in the Appendix shows that the total number of new
cases of tuberculosis coming to the knowledge of the Health Department
during the year was 78, 67 respiratory and 11 nonrespiratory.
Of this number 69 were notified by doctors practising
in the district or from hospital, while 9 were transfers from other
districts. The number of notifications received in 1937 was 67.
The number of deaths certified as due to tuberculosis was 28,
of which 21 were caused by respiratory and 7 by non-respiratory
disease. In the previous year the corresponding figures were 24
and 2. The death rate for tuberculosis was 0.52 per 1,000 of
population, as compared with 0.48 in 1937, and 0.95 in 1936.
Of the 21 deaths certified as duo to respiratory tuberculosis
16 occurred in the age period between 20 and 45 years. Seven of
these were in males and nine in females. Of the total of 28 deaths
due to all forms of tuberculosis, six were in persons who had not
previously been notified in this district as suffering from
tuberculosis.
The arrangements for providing treatment for sufferers from
tuberculosis are in the hands of the County Council, and Dr. J. R.
Dobson, the Tuberculosis Medical Officer, has kindly supplied me
with the following figures relating to cases from Wood Green which
came under his care during the year :—
Total number of new tubercular cases 46
Transfers from other districts (not included in above) 14
Total number of tubercular cases supervised at or
from the Dispensary in 1938 217
New cases and contacts examined and found to be
non-tubercular in 1938 88
Total number of tubercular cases still on the Register
at the end of 1938 172