HC Deb 14 July 1954 vol 530 cc34-5W
75. Mr. Hastings

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the incidence of tuberculosis of the lung among unconvicted Kikuyu tribesmen detained in detention camps; and what precautions are being taken to prevent the distribution of the disease by infected persons on their return to the Reserves.

Mr. Lyttelton

Emergency camps have not been established long enough and the population is changing too quickly to enable any estimate of the incidence of tuberculosis to be made, but the numbers found to be infected at a given time vary between 0.8 and 1.55 per 1,000

Africans known to be tubercular when they are discharged from camps are treated exactly the same as any other civilian cases and are asked to report to their local medical officers.

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