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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Walthamstow 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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One hundred and thirty-six removals from the Register were made up as follows :—
| Deaths | Removals | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmon ary | Non-Pulmonary | ||||
| m | F | m | F | m | F | m | F |
| 35 | 35 | 6 | 4 | 20 | 27 | 5 | 4 |
| 70 | 10 | 47 | 9 | ||||
| 80 | 66 | ||||||
| 136 | |||||||
The discrepancy between the number of deaths recorded here
and the number of registered deaths during the calendar year is
accounted for by transferable deaths and by cases not notified prior
to death
Treatment op Tuberculosis
Treatment is given under the Essex County Council's Scheme The admissions to Hospital during 1937 were as follows :—
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | |||
| Adults | 72 | 77 | 2 | 155 | |
| Children | 5 | 7 | 5 | 21 | |
No action was necessary under the Public Health (Prevention
of Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1925, Section 62 of the Public Health
Act, 1925, or Section 172 of the Public Health Act, 1936
The arrangements detailed in the report for 1935 were
continued during 1937
Amongst other measures taken to prevent tuberculosis are the
following :—
(a) Re-housing of patients with infectious pulmonary tuberculosis
The re-housing is subject to the patient occupying, as far
as possible, a separate bed and bedroom, and attending the Tuberculosis
Dispensary regularly
(b) When a patient is notified to be suffering from nonpulmonary
tuberculosis an inquiry is made as to the mdlk supply,
and in any case of doubt the milk is biologically tested for the
tubercle bacillus