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PUBLIC HEALTH (PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS)
REGULATIONS, 1925.
No occasion has arisen necessitating official action under
the above Regulations.
PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1925, SECTION 62.
No action was deemed necessary under the above Act.
Tuberculosis Dispensary—Annual Report of
Tuberculosis Officer.
The general methods as outlined in last year's report have
been pursued. The examination of notified, request and
contact cases by Medical Officers and the investigation and
visiting of notified cases by the Tuberculosis Nurses have
formed the daily work of the Dispensary, together with the
recording of cases and other clerical and administrative work.
Returns to the Ministry.—I attach herewith the Annual
Returns which the Ministry of Health have now made
obligatory. The completion of these Returns requiring the
keeping of a Register of Cases has increased considerably the
routine weekly clerical work.
Table I. is an analysis of the work done. All new cases
and contacts examined are classified into definite, doubtful or
non-Tuberculous. The definite cases are subdivided into
Pulmonary and Non-Pulmonary, and further classified according
to age and sex.
Table II. shows the number of beds in use in Institutions
throughout the year, and the number of patients who have
received treatment.
Table III. shows the immediate results of treatment.