[Report 1926] / Medical Officer of Health, Barnsley County Borough.
- Barnsley (England : Unitary authority). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1926
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Credit: [Report 1926] / Medical Officer of Health, Barnsley County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![^ The Corporation also provides extra nourishment for patients, upon the recommendation of the Clinical Tubercul- osis Officer, after the Tuberculosis Health Visitors have reported upon the home circumstances. The sum of £66 was expended in this direction in the last flnancial year. xi. Cases of non-pulmonary tuberculosis are treated at the Dispensary and at Mount Vernon Sanatorium, both child- ren and adults, while numerous cases of non-pulmonary tu])erculosis in children of school age are in attendance at the Open Air School, Mount Vernon, described in my Annual Report as S.M.O. ^ Surgical apparatus is provided by the Medical Services Committee of the Corporation, in cases where the patients are not able to provide it themselves. After recommendation by the Clinical Tuberculosis Officer, and investigation of the home conditions by the Health Vis- itors, occasional cases of surgical tuberculosis are admitted to Special Institutions, such as, Kirbymoorside Hospital, North Yorkshire, and Lord Mayor Treloar’s Hospital and College, Alton. xii. No After-care Committee has been appointed, but the members of the Medical Services Committee of the Corpor- ation assist the Tuberculosis Health Visitors in suitable cases in “ care ” and after-care.” xiii. The Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1925, have not been used officially. Under these Regulations persons who are 'aware that they are suffering from tuberculosis of the respiratory tract shall not be engaged in any dairy or in the handling of milk, and a person so em- ployed may be prohibited from further -work in such occupa- tion, subject, however, to compensation. The Medical Officer of Health has been consulted occasionally by employers respecting the advisability of engaging consumptives in the dairy industry, and he has advised them upon the danger of employing infectious patients. The Regulations are bound to interfere slightly with the employment of tuberculous, persons, but it is justifiable in the interests of public health.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28903365_0105.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
