[Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Aldershot U.D.C.
- Aldershot (England). Urban District Council.
- Date:
- 1909
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Aldershot U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![patients appeared to have greatly jn’ofited by their stay in the Infirmary, and to have learned the great value of fresh air in this disease, and the imjjortance of antisejitic pre- cautions as regards their sputum, cvc. One jiatient had erected for himself a tent in the back garden, in which he was living entirely, and most of them had provided them- selves, or had been ]irovided, with proper spit bottles. In one case, however, a state of things existed from a consider- ation of which no surprise could be felt at the presence of consumption, or at its probable dissemination, d'he house was overcrowded ; the walls, ceilings, floors, clothing, and furniture were filthy and covered with dust ; and the win- dows were kejit tightly closed. The question of the establishment of a system of vohin- tarv notification of Pulmonary d'uberculosis has come forward during the year, and the following Rejiort was issued by me in December :— Report of the Medical Officer of Health concerning the Tuberculosis Conference. On ^^Tdnesday, December ist, I attended, together with Mr. S. J. Woods (Chairman) and Mr. W. T. Robertson, the Conference on Pulmonary Tuberculosis at the (luildhall, Mhnchester. d'he gathering was largely attended by representatives from all the County P)Orough, Urban, and Rural authorities in Hampshire. I'lie main purpose of the Conference was to initiate a movement througliout the county, having for its object the adoption and advocacy of strenuous measures for the prevention of Consumption. Statistics were laid before the meeting pointing out the extreme prevalence of the disease, its persistence under well-known sanitary con- ditions, the loss in vrages and in service to the nation that it involves during its frequently protracted course, and the heavv mortalitv which results. It will not, I think, be necessary for me to mention more than two salient facts with reference to the mortality from this disease, namely: Firstly, that on an average 56,000 people die every year in England and Wales from d'uber- culosis—in other words, one person in every ten who die meet their death from this disease ; and secondly, that it is an infectious disease, conveyed from one infected person to other healthy ones, and therefore, as is the case with all](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29524751_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
