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Sanitary Administration of the District. 39
6. Shelters are loaned for open air treatment where necessary.
7. The disinfection of the house is carried out on the termination
or removal of any case of Consumption, and at anytime during
illness, upon request.
8. The Council have approved of the principle of utilising the
Joint Small-Pox Hospital for the educative treatment of certain
cases, and conferences are to be held with the various constituent
authorities, as to the best means of giving effect to the principle.
The Richmond Board of Guardians have set aside in their
Infirmary special wards for the treatment of certain cases of
Consumption, but great difficulty is experienced in persuading
sufferers to take advantage of this accommodation.
Other than this, there is no Hospital accommodation for the
treatment of advanced cases.
During the year there were thirty deaths from all forms of
Tuberculosis. Of these twenty were caused by Pulmonary Tuberculosis
and the number dying in Public Institutions from all forms of
tuberculosis was six, of these four being from Pulmonary Phthisis.
All Institutional deaths from Consumption taking place in the
Workhouse Infirmary.
The cases of Consumption notified during the year numbered
thirty-eight, twelve of these being notified under the Tuberculosis
Regulations, 1908, that is, the cases coming within the purview of
the Poor Law Medical Officers, shewing the intimate relation
between pauperism and Consumption.
Of the cases notified, twenty received or are receiving treatment
: seven in the Poor Law Infirmary seven attending the Council's
Dispensary, the remainder in various voluntary Hospitals.