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AMBULANCE SERVICE
The Borough Council is not an ambulance Authority, this
service being the responsibility of the Greater London Council.
The service in the borough is co-ordinated from the main area control
centre in New Maiden.
PREVENTION OF ILLNESS. CARE AND AFTER CARE
Tuberculosis
The measures for the prevention, control and treatment
of tuberculosis are directed by the chest physicians and staff of
the Chest Clinic at Kingston Hospital.
During 1966, 33 cases were notified in the borough and of
these, 27 were pulmonary and 6 non-pulmonary.
The 27 pulmonary cases were in the undermentioned stages
of the disease:
A. or Tuberculosis - (sputum negative) 17
B.1 or Tuberculosis + (early cases,
sputum positive) 1
B.2 or Tuberculosis + (intermediate cases,
sputum positive) 5
B.3 or Tuberculosis + (advanced cases,
sputum positive) 4
The non-pulmonary cases were comprised as follows:
Tuberculous ankle - 1. Tuberculous glands of neck - 2.
Tuberculous kidney - 2. Tuberculous endometritis - 1.