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cases occurred in New Maiden - two in one family undoubtedly contracted by
inhaling sewer gas. The other may have been caused by defective drainage
and drinking water from a foul cistern.
1901 . In February, 3 cases occurred almost simultaneously in one house, 2
children and 1 maidservant were removed to the Tolworth Isolation Hospital
where the maid died. The house drains were found to be faulty and leaky,
the sewage soaking into the foundations. The drains have been relaid
throughout
Tuberculosis.
"1898. Happily we have so few cases of consumption and other farms of
Tuberculosis, that the new popular open-air treatment is not the serious
undertaking that it has became to large urban districts, It is undoubtedly
a preventable disease and our duty is to prevent in every way possible the
transmission of the disease to others, This can be accomplished by
distributing leaflets dealing with the disease and its prevention and by
informing all the Medical practitioners in the districts that, at their
request, in all cases, especially after death, disinfection, including the
scraping of the walls and washing with an antiseptic the floors of the rooms
of consumptives will be undertaken by the Council free of charge. Such
disinfection would undoubtedly diminish the spread of this disease.
1900. The preventive treatment of this disease has received a great impulse
from the interest taken in the subject by His present Majesty. His influence
has induced the public to take an intelligent interest in the so-called open-air
treatment and it is devoutly to be hoped that, in the future, the public
sanitary authorities will support their Medical Officers in their endeavour
to deal effectually with this disease. I think an advance in the right
direction would be to make consumption a notifiable disease.
1211. The Tuberculosis Regulations, 1911, state that every Medical
Practitioner attending on,, or called in to visit any person shall within
forty eight hours after first becoming aware that such person is suffering
from Pulmonary Tuberculosis, complete, sign and transmit a notification of
the case to the Medical Officer of Health far the area in which the place
of residence of such person is situated.
The Council have decided to afford free Bacteriological Examination
to assist the medical men in the district to be accurate in diagnosis.
1912. The treatment of this disease is still in initial stage. Insured
persons can obtain sanatorium or domiciliary treatment by the County, each
case is seen by the County Tuberculosis Medical Officer, who decides the
nature of the treatment; but persons not insured have still to depend for