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Institutional Treatment.
The number of patients who received Institutional treatment
under the L.C.C. Tuberculosis Scheme was 135, and the average
length of stay was 95 days. The average period of waiting before
admission was 16½ days. Definite improvement as a result of
institutional treatment was shown in 49 cases. Twenty-eight patients
discharged themselves while undergoing institutional treatment.
The number of dispensary patients admitted to St. James's
Hospital during the year was 44.
Contributions of patients undergoing institutional treatment
were collected by the Dispensary and remitted to the L.C.C. to the
amount of £791 0s. 5d.
Examinations and Reports.
Sputum examinations made during the year numbered 1,305,
of which 433 were received from medical practitioners, and 460
from St. James's Hospital. The number of positive examinations
was 288 or 22.06 per cent.
Reports to public bodies were made to the number of 1,087.
Consultations with medical practitioners at the houses of
patients and reports made on patients sent to the Dispensary
totalled 820, while reports received in respect of insured persons
numbered 132 (Form G.P. 36, 131, form G.P. 17, 1).
There were 151 patients referred to hospitals, including 130 sent
to St. Thomas's for X-ray examination.
Artificial Sunlight Treatment.
During the year 10 patients (9 children, 1 adult) received treatment
for surgical tuberculosis at the Council's artificial sunlight
treatment centre at Southlands (vide page 53). In 6 cases treatment
was completed; 1 patient removed from the district, and the 3
remaining were still under treatment at the end of the year. The
average period of treatment in the 6 completed cases was 90 days,
and the result of the treatment in these cases is shown on p. 125.
The work is carried out by one of the Dispensary nurses under
the direction of the Tuberculosis Medical Officer.
In the Appendix (pages 136 to 140) will be found Form T. 53,
which contains the returns required by the Ministry of Health
of the work of the Dispensary during the year 1930, and Form T.
56, which shows in a summarised form the condition of all patients
whose case records were in possession of the Dispensary at the end
of 1930, arranged according to the years (from 1921 to 1930) in
which the patients first came under public medical treatment for
pulmonary and non-pulmonary tuberculosis.