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The number of children successfully vaccinated or revaccinated
at L.C.C. clinics during the year was 623.
A supply of vaccine is kept in the Department for
emergency use.
Tuberculosis.
The number of primary notifications of pulmonary tuberculosis
received was 160, compared with 167 last year, and
the number of nan-pulmonary cases was 23 as compared with
13 in 1953. The mortality rate for the year of pulmonary
tuberculosis is 30, and of non-pulmonary 6.0 per 100,000
population, as compared with 39 and 4.0 respectively in 1953.
(For details of register and of notifications see page 75).
Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1925.
These regulations provide that persons suffering from
tuberculosis of the respiratory tract shall not be employed
in the handling of milk or milk receptacles. Power is given
to the Council to cause such persons to discontinue their
employment. It was not found necessary to take action under
the regulations during the year.
Tuberculosis - Mass X-Ray Survey.
During the year the Public Health Department assisted
in setting up a mass X-ray unit, under the control of the
North East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, in fourteen
centres in the Borough, and the number of persons examined,
which included employees of firms in the Borough and Council
employees, as well as members of the public, was 15,188.
Thirty-two persons were found to be suffering from active
Pulmonary Tuberculosis, equivalent to an incidence rate
of 2.10 per 1,000 persons examined. The corresponding rate
in 1951, when the Unit last visited the Borough, was 2.84.
Other conditions, including a number of cases of cancer of
the lung, were discovered.
Among the interesting abnormal conditions found was one
case of dextra-cardia, where the individual concerned had
the internal organs of the body transposed, so that the heart
was on the right side and the liver on the left side, etc.
This condition does not in any way affect health.
A summary of the analysis of the results is as follows:-
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