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The ratio of non-notified tuberculosis deaths to the total tuberculosis deaths was
as one is to twelve. In 1931 it was as one is to eight, and in 1930 it was as one is
to twelve.
Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1925.—These Regulations
provide for the compulsory discontinuance of employment of persons engaged in
the handling or treatment of milk, who are suffering from tuberculosis. No case
of this kind came to the notice of the Council during the year. Every milk vendor
in the Borough is periodically reminded that the Tuberculosis Officer is willing to
examine, free of charge, all employees or candidates for employment in the milk
trade. No examinations, however, were made during the year.
Staff.—This consists of one whole-time Tuberculosis Officer, two part-time
Assistant Tuberculosis Officers, three Tuberculosis Health Visitors, one ClerkDispenser,
and one Lay Organiser, who also acts as Secretary of the Care Committee.
In accordance with the practice in recent years, one Tuberculosis Visitor attended
a refresher course of two weeks during the winter.
The Work of the Dispensaries.—The Council's Dispensary is situated at Maxey
Road, Plumstead, and there is a branch Dispensary at 179, Well Hall Road, Eltham.
The Eltham branch was opened in 1931 and more use of it is being made now than
in that year. In accordance with the Minister of Health's instructions the Dispensary
figures are shown for the Borough as a whole and not for individual dispensaries.
One of the Tuberculosis Officers attends at the main Dispensary every week-day,
but an evening session is held, instead of an afternoon one, on Thursdays. Eight
separate clinical sessions in all are held for men, for women, and for children.
The branch Dispensary is open on three half-days a week—Monday afternoons
for men, and Wednesday and Friday mornings for women and children.
The total number of attendances at the Dispensaries during 1932 was 4,935.
In this connection it is interesting to point out that 254 of the persons notified during
1932 attended the Dispensaries, which is equivalent to 89.7%. The corresponding
percentage in 1931 was 78.93, and in 1930, 78.6.
A return of the work of the Dispensaries is given in Table No. 77.