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Facilities for diagnosis and treatment of Pulmonary
Tuberculosis, as well as prevention and after care, are provided by
the Hounslow Chest Clinic.
Examination of contacts and B.C.G. inoculation for the
prevention of this disease are handled by the Tuberculosis Health
Visitors. 280 family contacts residing in the Borough were given
B.C.G. inoculation during 1952.
A prominent part in the treatment is played by domiciliary
chemo-therapy with the aid of the "Home Nurses" (formerly District
Nurses) provided by the Middlesex County Council.
Apart from institutional treatment provided by the local
Hospital Management Committees and by the North West Metropolitan
Regional Hospital Board in General hospitals and in Chest Hospitals,
there is now also a Middlesex County Council Hostel for chronic
ambulant male tuberculous patients.
Facilities for convalescence, rehabilitation and training are
provided by the Middlesex County Council and the North West
Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board.
The social side of the treatment and prevention of pulmonary
tuberculosis is dealt with by the Welfare Department of the Hounslow
Chest Clinic.
HOUSING CONDITIONS OF CASES OF TUBERCULOSIS
N0TIFIED-DURING 1952
The housing conditions of the 107 new cases of tuberculosis
were found to be as follows:-
69 patients lived in sufficiently satisfactory housing
accommodation, 31 in flats, 19 in houses, 10 in lodgings or
furnished rooms, 4 in pre-fabricated dwellings, 4 in Institutions
and 1 in a houseboat.
In 7 cases the housing was unsatisfactory or dilapidated and in
3 cases there was overcrowding. Of these 10, 6 have either been
rehoused or have left the district.
12 new notifications came from homes already returning one or
more cases of tuberculosis. 5 of these came from houses classed as
unsatisfactory or dilapidated, and 1 from an overcrowded tome.
There have been 4 notifications of tuberculosis from one poor type
house, 3 of them being submitted in 1952.
8 cases were inward transfers from other districts and,
therefore, had not developed their illness while resident in
Brentford and Chiswick.
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