The war against consumption: a popular handbook of the proceedings of the British Congress on Tuberculosis, London, 1901 / by Dennis Vinrace ; revised by John H. Vinrace.
- Vinrace, Edward Dennis.
- Date:
- 1902
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The war against consumption: a popular handbook of the proceedings of the British Congress on Tuberculosis, London, 1901 / by Dennis Vinrace ; revised by John H. Vinrace. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![tions, wliicli are treated as confidential, have to he fient to the local Medical Officer of Health, who then proceeds to take certain precautionaiy measures, auch as seeing that due cleanliness is observed in the homes of the sick, directing the treatment of ihe secretions, and securing the disinfection of rooms, garments, and bedclothes, before they are used by other persons. As, when the Congress was held, the law had only been in force for some six months, ])r. Holmboe was not in a position ,to make any definite statement as to its effects. He was, how- ever, able to say that no complaint as to incon- veniences resulting from its enforcement had as yet come to the notice of the Directorate of Medical Service. While, however, most countries have been reluctant to have resort to compulsorj^ measures, a good deal has been done to test the practicability and efficacy of notifying cases of consumption by means of voluntary systems of notification. In several important English towns, such systems are now' in active work, and there are indications that their example is likely to be followed pretty exten- sively in the near fufure. Perhaps I shall best make clear the objects which it is sought to obtain by voluntary notification, and the methods which have so far been found the most convenient, by taking, as a typical example, the case of Manchester, and setting forth the measures which have there been adopted, and the results which have so far been obtained. The success or failure of an experi- ment of this kind is a matter of so much interest to all members of Municipal Authorities, that I think I need make no apology for going into the subject with some degree of fulness and detail. My authority for most of the following statements, it should be said, is Alderman McDougall, Deputy Chairman of the Manchester Sanitary Committee,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24991879_0066.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
