[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenford].

  • Greenford (London, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1914
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    18 Tuberculosis. No new cases of this disease were notified during the year but two deaths of old cases occurred, both Pulmonary, and in the Brentford Union Infirmary. This District is attached to No. 4 Area into which the County of Middlesex is divided by the County Council for dis pensary treatment of this District, and the local District Council provide gratuitous examination of samples of Sputum for the detection of Tubercle Bacilli, an arrangement having been made as previously mentioned, with the Clinical Re search Association for this purpose, also suitable cases are sent to the Middlesex District Councils Conjoint Boards Hospital at South Mimms, when approved of by myself, at a cost to the Council of 4s. 3d. per patient per day, no charge being made to the patient. Vaccination. As Public Vaccinator for the District I have again to record the practical abolition of this precautioning measure against Small Pox. It is very rarely now, that I am requested or allowed to vaccinate a child. During the year I have only vaccinated three children and no re-vaccinations. Sanitary Circumstances of the District These remain the same as mentioned in my previous reports. The question of Drainage and Sewerage was fully entered upon in my last Annual Report. A public enquiry was held at Bethams Schools on January 15th by Major J. Stewart, R.E. The Greenford Council having presented a Petition to the Local Government Board to issue a Provisional order to empower the said Council to put in force, with reference to certain lands required by them for purposes of Sewerage disposal, etc., the powers of the Lands Clauses Acts with respect to the purchase and taking of lands otherwise than by Agreement. The scheme proposed was fully described in my last Annual Report, it is therefore not necessary to repeat it, suffice it to say that the matter is still in abeyance,in the mean
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