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Medical Grounds.
91 requests for priority for re-housing and issue of building
licences on medical grounds were referred to the Medical Officer
of Health for assessment, usually supported by a doctor's
written certificate. Each case was fully and personally investigated
and recommendations made were as follows:—
Total Priority Priority
Disease. Applicants Recom- Not Recommended.
mended.
Nervous disease (anxiety
states, neurasthenia, neurosis, etc ) 14 3 11
Asthma, Bronchitis and
Catarrhal Diseases, etc. 13 3 10
Rheumatism 10 6 4
Heart Disease 11 4 7
Tuberculosis 5 3 2
Poliomyelitis 10 1
Diseases of digestive system 6 4 2
Diseases of Circulatory System
(excluding Heart) 4 0 4
Cancer 3 3 0
Other Diseases 24 5 19
91 31 60
Figures for 1951 were: 72 40 32
The sixty applicants not recommended for medical priority
included (1) Illness not aggravated by housing conditions (2)
Temporary indispositions; (3) Those pleading the discomforts
of overcrowding and structural defects (i e., grounds other than
medical).
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