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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
Southall 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southall]
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Graph B
Tuberculosis (All Forms)—Notifications and Deaths from 1930 to 1957
Notifications
Deaths
For diagnostic purposes, Southall patients are mostly referred either by general practitioners
or from hospital doctors to the Uxbridge Chest Clinic, and if tuberculosis is found
treatment and following-up is instituted from that Clinic. The Tuberculosis Visitor calls
at the home of a patient and submits a copy of her report to the Public Health Department.
Contacts are seen by the Visitor and they have suitable tests, either tuberculin tests or X-rays,
or both, at the Chest Clinic. If sanitary defects or overcrowding are reported further
visiting is carried out from the Public Health Department.
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