[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough].

  • Stoke Newington (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
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    24 it has been impossible to secure a remedy for the bad home environ ment of patients visited. He has also called attention repeatedly to the fact that Accommodation for advanced cases is still inadequate, and there are many 'open' or infectious cases, whose home conditions are bad, who would be safer in an institution, if provision for their segregation could be obtained. Stormont House Open Air School, at Hackney Downs, has entirely justified its existence. The classes remain full, and there is still material to be found if more accommodation could be provided. The benefit derived from this form of treatment has been apparent in the children attending from this Dispensary. A useful scheme has been evolved by the London County Council with regard to children of school age, by which a closer co-operation between the School Medical Officer and the Tuberculosis Officer has been effected. The Regulations, 1925, providing for the discontinuance of the employment of a person engaged in the milking of cows, the treat ment of milk, the handling of vessels used for containing milk, when such a person is suffering from Pulmonary Tuberculosis and is in an infectious state, represent a wise provision against a possible danger. The milk allowances granted to a limited number of patients have been much appreciated, and might well be extended with good results. TABLE III. THE TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARY WORK 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925[/##3] Attendances of New Patients 124 101 90 94 102 Attendances of Contacts 301 263 238 196 254 Attendances of Old Patients 1241 1180 1079 1140 1027 Home Visits by Tuberculosis Medical Officer 25 23 37 68 69
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