[Report 1957] / Medical Officer of Health, Bebington Borough.

  • Bebington (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1957
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    Section 28—Prevention of Illness, Care and After-Care Tuberculosis Home visits to tuberculosis patients by health visitors were continued throughout the year and close liaison with the Tuberculosis Officer, Dr. D. W. Tough, was maintained. Nursing equipment was loaned to patients in appropriate cases. The register of non-pulmonary cases was overhauled drastically at the end of the year. Many of these had suffered from tuberculosis of glands which had been removed or had subsided completely and did not require any kind of follow-up. With cases of pulmonary tuberculosis it is more difficult to say that they should be considered cured and some authorities would say that they can never be so considered but much unnecessary and unwanted visiting is done in this field and the energy could be applied more usefully elsewhere and it is to be hoped that during the next year the numbers on the pulmonary tuberculosis register can be pruned down. The following table shows the state of the register at the 31st December, 1957, and other relevant figures for the year. TABLE XIII Tuberculosis Register at 31st December, 1957 Male Female Total Pulmonary 245 223 468 Non-pulmonary 12 27 39 — — — 257 250 507 — — — New cases placed on register Male Female Total Pulmonary 30 21 51 Non-pulmonary 1 1 2 — — — 31 22 53 Cases removed from Register “ ' ' Deaths Pronounced cured Left district Lost sight of Colonised at Wrenbury 6 34 24 3 Nil (Pulmonary) 67