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Apart from institutional treatment provided by the local Hospital Management
Committees and by the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board in General
Hospitals end in Chest Hospitals, there is also a Middlesex County Council Hostel
for chronic ambulant male tuberculous patients.
It is interesting to find that the number of persons waiting at the end of
1954 for hospital or sanatorium admission was only 29. This figure has been
failing very rapidly in the past few years, and has indeed fallen during the
twelve months from 77 on the waiting list in December, 1953.
It seems that a modest hope can be entertained that the day is not far off
when the satisfactory position will be attained of having more institution beds
than patients to fill them.
Facilities for convalescence, rehabilitation and training are providedby
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 1954
The housing conditions of 75 of the 94 new cases of tuberculosis were found
to be as follows:-
72 patients lived in sufficiently satisfactory housing accommodation, 24
in flats, 18 in houses, 25 in lodgings or furnished rooms 3 in institutions,
and 2 in prefabricated houses.
In 1 case the housing was dilapidated and in 2 cases there was overcrowding
The housing particulars of 19 cases were not obtainable either because of removal
of patients to other districts or because of resistance of patients to home
visiting.
21 new notifications came from homes already returning one or more cases
of tuberculosis None of these came from houses classed as unsatisfactory or
dilapidated There have been 4 notifications of tuberculosis from an institution
2 of them being submitted in 1954.
42 cases were inward transfers from other districts and therefore, had not
developed their illness while resident in Brentford and Chiswick.
The position regarding cases living in unsatisfactory or overcrowded
conditions, outstanding from previous years, is as follows:-
Year Cases No where Conditions improved
1953 8 1
1952 1 -
1951 3 -
1950 3 -
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