[Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottingham City.

  • Nottingham (England). City Council.
Date:
1942
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    4. Industrial re-habilitation, arrangements being made for the gradual return to industry on a basis of part-time or modified work. A supplement to wages should be provided during this period. 5. Miniature mass rauiograpny, *' pre-employment ”, 44 employment ” and 44 periodic ”, the last being possibly combined with periodic tubercular testing of selected persons. 6. Pasteurisation of milk should be universal ; where this is not yet practicable, all milk consumed by children should be boiled, or of the dried-milk type. Infants and school-children should not be given raw and potentially-infected milk as a 44 priority ” food. 7. In due course an enquiry into the feasibility and possible advantages of large scale immunization against tuberculosis by the B.C.G. or other vaccine, may be called for. Dr. Whitaker does not mention, but takes it as a matter of common knowledge, that spitting on the ground or on the floors or walls of buildings or vehicles is one method of the spread of tuberculosis, and is to be con¬ demned. This is a matter for public education and the development of a standard of public behaviour. Methods of compulsion are not practicable, and where adopted have not been successful to any great degree. At the time of writing this report the Government has already issued its scheme for the financial help mentioned in (3) above. Arrangements are on foot to establish an almoners department to undertake all social work appropriate for trained almoners in connection with every