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The district provides a free service for the examination
of sputum for tubercle bacilli. During the year 1941, 96 specimens
were examined with a positive result in 9 instances, and
in the year 1942, 87 specimens were examined with a positive
result in 3 instances.
During the years 1941 and 1942 no action was taken under
the Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations,
1925, which gives power to prohibit the handling of milk by
infectious tuberculous persons, nor under Section 172 of the
Public Health Act, 1936, which provides for the removal of an
infectious person to hospital.
Two Voluntary Care Committees share in the responsibility
for maintaining the health of tuberculous persons in this
district. The majority of the funds which are raised by these
Committees are expended in providing nourishment for
patients suffering from this infection.
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