[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Droylsden U.D.C.
- Droylsden (England). Urban District Council.
- Date:
- 1925
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Droylsden U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![nis])pnsarv for supervision and arrangements for treatment, was two-hundred and twenty-five. SpociaJ encjuiries are made as to the health of other inmates of the house where there are patients suffering from definite Tuberculosis, and fifteen of these contacts were examined during the year. Tn supervision and visiting, special attention is paid the open cases, i.e., cases where tubercle bacilli are present or have been found in the sputum. On the 1st January, 1925, seventeen such cases were known to be living in the district. On the 31st December, 1925, there were twenty positive cases living. These figures include (juiescent and arrested cases. The number of positive cases living at 31st December, 1925, vdio had tubercle bacilli in the sputum during 1925, was sixteen. The other four cases had either negative or no sputum. Ten of the positive cases died during the year. Two positive cases removed from the district during the year. The condition as to isolation at home oif the positive cases was as follows: — Separate bedroom 28 Separate bed 2 Not separate bed 1 Eighteen of the positive cases were in Institution foi treatinent or isolation at some time during the year. Three housing defects were reported during the year, and these had been remedied by the end of the year,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29170540_0049.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
