[Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Epsom & Ewell Borough.

  • Epsom and Ewell (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1956
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Credit: [Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Epsom & Ewell Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OOMMITTEIB The Epson, Leatherhead and District Tuberculosis Care Oonfilttee has ccntlnued i'lis work with energy diiring the year under the Ohalrnanship of Aldcrnan I^Sa A* Winter. The Secretary of the Conni.t'bee is Miss M, Wright, who is also the Surry County Gouncil*s Care Alnoner in the area, and the Treasurer is Mr. T. L. iOlnnagan, of the Epson Branch of the Westminster Bank. lumbers of the Connittee inc?i.ude representatives of the Borough Council, the Leatherhead Urban District Council, Associations and Soc5.eties interested in social welfare, and officers engaged in work connected with health, welfare and relief* Thus the Connit'tee is in a good positrlon to help solve the special problems of the tuberculous person and the household to wiiich he belongs, and rrach valuable work has been done. This treatment 5,s available at Chest Clinics to contacts in the faroily of tuberculous persons, if preliminary testing shows that they have not already b^en infected. It has also been offered to children between 13 and 14 years attending maintained schools, end those porivate schools wiiich have co^'-operated in the scheme of tc'catEEjnt* The treatment in schools is carried out by the staff of the Divi.sional Msdical Officer who has provided the following information relating to the work dene in local schools in 1956, Communications were sent to the parents of 927 school children ascertained to be in the age group concerned with the following results* These have been subdivided to No. of children offered treatment at Maintained Schools '* ** ” '• Private Schools Total 927 No. n No. It consenting at Mb-intaimed Schools M n p-j^ivate Schools Total of chil-dren vaccinated with B*C.G* II n n II II 572 (equivalent to 72^) _S3_( ■■ '• 63%) 655 ( n%) liaintaimed Schools 523 Private Schools 72 Total 595 A survey fn the Borough was carried ofut during 1956 by the Mass Radiography Service. Sessions open to the general public viero held at the Foresters Hall, Epsom and at E-re 11 Court House* A total of 4,596 pereons attended. The I-fedical Director of the Unit has given the following details of their investigation. ten teas IPJiale Total number examined 564 8-76 1,31S 1,838 Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Active 2 1 2 1 Pulmmany Tuber(julosis, Inactive IfJ 24 47 54 Non^^tiberculous abaormali.ties 41 45 84 55 Cases not yet diagnosed 5 3 12 10 (22)