[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney].

  • Stepney (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1963]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    71/102 (page 51)
    Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations. 1925 These regulations provide that persons suffering from Tuberculosis of the respiratory tract shall not be employed in the handling of milk or milk receptacles. Power is given to the Council to cause such persons to discontinue their employment. It was not found necessary to take action under the regulations during the year. Tuberculosis Care Committee The Tuberculosis Care Committee on which voluntary and official bodies are represented, and whose meetings are attended by the Medical Officer of Health, continues to supply help to Tuberculous persons and to relatives who require assistande which cannot be obtained from official sources or where urgency or special circumstances indicate that the voluntary sources of the Care Committee are preferable. During the year assistance was given to needy persons by way of grants towards clothing, fuel, removal expenses, holidays, and fares for relatives visiting patients in hospital. The Care Committee again provided a day's coach outing to the seaside in the summer as well as Christmas gifts to 45 patients ill at home. Funds raised through the Annual Christmas Seal Sale were sup plemented by donations from various organisations, for which the Care Committee is most grateful. Help was also obtained from appropriate sources for patients who were attending the Chest Clinic suffering from lung cancer. Whooping Cough Confirmed cases notified during the year numbered 18, the lowest ever recorded - as it was for the London area as a whole. There were no deaths from the disease. Infectious Disease Contacts Where a person is precluded from continuing at work by reason of being a carrier or having been in contact with an infectious disease, benefits under the National Insurance Act 1946 are paid only on the production of a certificate from the Medical Officer of Health. It was not found necessary to issue any certificates during the year. Authentication of International Certificates of Vaccination and Inoculation Persons proceeding abroad are required in certain countries to produce a certificate of recent successful vaccination and inoculation, and in addition the signature of the vaccinating doctor must be verified 51