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Preventive Work Carried Out by the Council.
There has been no change made in the preventive measures
which are routinely carried out by the Public Health Department
and which have been referred to in detail in previous Reports. A
total of 218 home-visits were made during the year by the Health
Visitors in connection with patients notified to be suffering from
tuberculosis.
It has not been found necessary to take action during the year
under the Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations,
1925, in respect of any tuberculous persons employed in the milk
trade.
Treatment—Dispensary and Institutional.
The Surrey County Council is the Local Authority responsible
for the treatment of all tuberculosis cases within the Borough.
There were 45 residents of this district suffering from tuberculosis
admitted to institutions during the year (42 of them suffering
from pulmonary and 3 from non-pulmonary tuberculosis). Ten of
these received institutional treatment at more than one institution.
Admissions were as under:—
Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
To Surrey County Council Sanatorium 8
„ Surrey County Hospitals 19
„ other sanatoria 8
„ general hospitals 13
„ Public Assistance Institutions 4
Total 52
Non-pulmonary Tuberculosis.
To sanatoria -
„ other institutions 3
Total 3
ISOLATION HOSPITAL.
The number of cases admitted to the Isolation Hospital during
-1939 was only 55, the lowest number of admissions on record during
the past twenty years. No cases were admitted from areas outside
the Borough. The year was characterized by an extremely low
incidence of infectious diseases generally.