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Facilities for convalescence, rehabilitation and training were 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
was dealt with by the Welfare Department of the Hounslow Chest Clinic.
B. C. G. Vaccination
As a result of the findings from the Tuberculosis Vaccinations Clinical
Trial, which took place from 1950 to I960, that a degree of protection could be
afforded by the vaccination of school children with B.C.G., a scheme was inaugurated
in the County of Middlesex for the tuberculin testing and, if neces
sary, vaccination of school children at the age of 13. During 1963, 687 children
were invited to take part in the scheme 491 consents were received. These
children were tuberculin tested and those found to be positive indicating a
previous infection with tuberculosis of a minor or major degree at some period
in their lives, were referred to the Chest Clinic for thorough investigation.
135 positives were so referred, B.C.G. vaccination was carried out on 272child
ren. Ten contacts of cases of tuberculosis were referred to the Chest Clinic.
All tests and vaccinations during 1963 under this scheme were carried out
by Middlesex County Council staff,
HOUSING CONDITIONS OF CASES OF TUBERCULOSIS
NOTIFIED DURING 1963
The housing conditions of 39 of the 47 cases of tuberculosis notified
during the year were found to be as follows -
35 patients lived in sufficiently satisfactory housing accommodation, (15
in flats 6 in houses 14 in lodgings or furnished rooms) but in one case the
property was old dilapidated and subject to dampness in another the patient
was living in overcrowded conditions and two others were living in houses in
multiple occupation
The housing particulars of eight cases were not obtained because of re
moval from the district or in two cases the death of the patient.
Seven new notifications came from homes already returning one or more cases
of tuberculosis in five instances the new patient was the second case in the
household in two others the new patient was the third to occur in the family.
14 cases were inward transfers from other districts and therefore had
not developed their illness while resident in Brentford and Chiswick,
Of the two families previously reported in 1962 one was living in old property
subject to dampness and has removed to good Council accommodation and
one was in overcrowded housing and this overcrowding has been abated
Mass X Ray
Work done by Mass X ray Unit 5A in the Borough during the year consisted
only of short visits to the factories and offices listed below One active case
of pulmonary tuberculosis and one of lung cancer were discovered in Brentford
and Chiswick residents and one of pulmonary tuberculosis two of lung cancer and
four cases for observation were found in addition amongst workers not resident
in the Borough out of a total of 4 565 persons X-rayed.
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