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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. The arrears in B.C.G. vaccination of contacts of
tuberculous patients have now been dealt with. B.C.G. inoculation
is now offered to all the Mantoux negative contacts of newly
discovered tuberculous cases % 22 residing in this Borough were
inoculated during 1953.
A prominent part in the treatment is played by domiciliary
ehemo-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 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
NOTIFIED DURING 1953
The housing conditions of 89 of the 126 new cases of
tuberculosis were found to be as follows :-
8l patients lived in sufficiently satisfactory housing
accommodation, 33 in flats, 30 in houses, 13 in lodgings or
furnished rooms, and 5 Institutions.
In 7 cases the housing was unsatisfactory or dilapidated and
in 1 case there was overcrowding. Of these 8, 1 has left the
district.
lb new notifications came from homes already returning one or
more cases of tuberculosis. 2 of these came from houses classed as
unsatisfactory or dilapidated. There have been 4 notifications of
tuberculosis from one poor type house, 3 of them being submitted in
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