[Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, West Sussex County Council.

  • Otto Neumann
Date:
1958
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Credit: [Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, West Sussex County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Contact Tracing The following Table, compiled from information supplied by the Chest Physicians, shews the number of new contacts examined and the number found to be tuberculous, during the years 1953-1958. Year -—-.- No. of Contacts examined No. found tuberculous 1958 574 2 1957 538 8 1956 496 10 1955 701 12 1954 482 14 1953 561 12 Occasionally deaths occur of persons whose tuberculous disease was not notified during life. Contacts of these cases are followed up by the Chest Physicians, usually through the Health Visitors or the family doctors. In newly diagnosed cases, the family, and other close contacts are examined by the Chest Physicians, in an endeavour to find the source of the infection. On several occasions adult cases have been discovered by this means. Mass Radiography The Mass X-ray unit from Portsmouth visited Chichester, Worthing Littlehampton and Bognor Regis between August and December, 1958* The unit from Worcester Park carried out a public survey in Crawley in September/October, .1958* The unit from Brighton also visited Crawley end examined employees on the factory estate. This visit was made at the request of the Secretary of the Worcester Park unit. As a result of these visits a total of 29,007 persons were examined of whom 25 were found to be suffering from active tuberculosis. These persons were referred by their practitioners to the Chest Physicians of the areas concerned. In addition to tuberculous conditions, many other abnor¬ malities were found and where it was considered necessary these persons were referred to their practitioners. The detailed results of the visits of these units were as follows:- Unit No. of persons examined No. found to be suffering from active tuber¬ culosis. Worcester Park Public Survey, Crawley, 4,201 3 Brighton Factory estate, Crawley. 5,352 4 Portsmouth Chichester,Wor¬ thing, Little¬ hampton, Bognor 19,454 18 TOTAL 29,007 25
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