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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 Care Committee
The Tuberculosis Care Committee on which voluntary and official
bodies are represented, and whose meetings are attended by the Medical
Officer of Health, continues to supply help to Tuberculous persons
and to relatives who require assistande which cannot be obtained from
official sources or where urgency or special circumstances indicate
that the voluntary sources of the Care Committee are preferable.
During the year assistance was given to needy persons by way of
grants towards clothing, fuel, removal expenses, holidays, and fares
for relatives visiting patients in hospital. The Care Committee
again provided a day's coach outing to the seaside in the summer as
well as Christmas gifts to 45 patients ill at home.
Funds raised through the Annual Christmas Seal Sale were supplemented
by donations from various organisations, for which the Care
Committee is most grateful. Help was also obtained from appropriate
sources for patients who were attending the Chest Clinic suffering
from lung cancer.
Whooping Cough
Confirmed cases notified during the year numbered 18, the lowest
ever recorded - as it was for the London area as a whole. There were
no deaths from the disease.
Infectious Disease Contacts
Where a person is precluded from continuing at work by reason of
being a carrier or having been in contact with an infectious disease,
benefits under the National Insurance Act 1946 are paid only on the
production of a certificate from the Medical Officer of Health. It
was not found necessary to issue any certificates during the year.
Authentication of International Certificates of
Vaccination and Inoculation
Persons proceeding abroad are required in certain countries to
produce a certificate of recent successful vaccination and inoculation,
and in addition the signature of the vaccinating doctor must be verified
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