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VACCINATION AND RE-VACCINATION OF
DEPARTMENTAL STAFF
The staff of the Department, especially those who would be
expected to deal with smallpox in the event of cases occurring,
were again offered facilities for vaccination and re-vaccination and
63 were done during 1950.
AMBULANCE FACILITIES
(Section 27)
The Ambulance Service is administered centrally from
Chelmsford and (as far as information is available) it appears to be
adequate for the needs of the Borough.
The Local Service has continued from the Ambulance Depot,
which is situated at the Borough Council's Fulbourne Road Depot.
PREVENTION OF ILLNESS —CARE AND AFTER-CARE
(Section 28)
TUBERCULOSIS
The following record has been completed from information
supplied by Dr. H. Ramsay, Physician-in-Charge of the Walthamstow
Chest Clinic, and Miss A. Woolgar, Secretary and Treasurer
to the Walthamstow and Chingford Association of Tuberculosis
Care Helpers.
1. Public Relations.—Miss Woolgar has given talks to seven local
organisations and reports that the talks were well received and
that the questions asked indicated a great interest in the sub'
ject. It was obvious, however, that there was an almost
complete lack of information on the services available to the
tuberculous and a rather shocking degree of ignorance on the
possibilities of recovery. It is still quite widely believed that a
diagnosis of tuberculosis is synonymous with a deferred
death-sentence, that the tuberculous patient never regains
working capacity and is a constant source of infection to others.
The dispelling of these ideas might well be the most valuable
outcome of any talk given.
2. Care and After-Care.— Dr. Ramsay as Honorary Medical
Adviser to the Association considers that the incidence rate of
cases to population is the most reliable method of assessing the
financial need of the Association.