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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Brentford and Chiswick 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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Six new notifications came from homes already returning one or more cases
of tuberculosis.
26 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 2 | 1 |
| 1954 | 1 | - |
| 1953 | 5 | 3 |
Mass X-ray
The Mass X-ray unit made a short visit to the Borough to Messrs. Pullins
factory which had not entered in the Borough Survey in 1957. 432 were X-rayed
there. One case of active tuberculosis was found-a male not resident in this
Borough.
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