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One-hundred end thirty-five scabies patients and contacts were treated
by medicinal baths at the Branch Road Treatment Centre and their clothing
disinfested, viz.:-
MaLes Females Children
60 38 37
The number of baths given during the year totalled 275.
Scarlet Fever.
There were forty-five cases notified and no deaths from the disease.
Smallpox.
No cases of smallpox were notified during the year and it was not
necessary for me to take action under the Public Health (Smallpox) Regulations,
1917.
Frequent notifications are received from port and airport authorities
of persons coming into the Borough who may have been in contact with
smallpox. Observation, for the necessary period is kept on such persons
by officers of the Public Health Department.
The number of children successfully vaccinated or rr. vnceinatod at
London County Council clinics during the year was 1,205.
Tuberculosis.
The number of primary notifications of pulmonary tuberculosis
received was 117, compared with 116 last year, and the number of nonpulmonary
cases notified was 18 as compared with 11 last year. The
mortality rate for the year for pulmonary tuberculosis was 20 and of
non-pulmonary nil per 100,000 population, compared with 17 and nil
respectively in 1956. (For details of register and notifications
see Page 65).
Tuberculosis - Mass X-ray Survey.
A mass X-ray mobile unit of the North East Metropolitan Regional
Hospital Board visited the Borough during the year. Besides being static
at the Public Health Department for part of the period, the unit visited
some large factories in the area, as well as a London County Council
institution, ond undertook a new venture by visiting large housing estates
in the Borough. The unit vjsl'3 also set up for a few days at "Speakers'
Corner" on Tower Hill.
The totcJ. number of persons X-rayed was 12,120, of whom 335 were
recalled for large films. The numbers X-rayed at the various sites in
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