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Three deaths were in unnotified cases.
The district provides a free service for the examination
of sputum for tubercle bacilli. During the year 88 specimens
were examined with a positive result in 6 instances.
No action was taken under the Public Health (Prevention
of Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1925, which gives power to prohibit
the handling of milk by infectious tuberculosis 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 tuberculosis 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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