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The arrangements and procedure for distribution and treatment of patients
are described fully in the annual report for 1934 (pp. 40.2).
Auxiliary services provided by the Council include the following:—
(1) Dental treatment, dentures and spectacles certified to be essential
during residential treatment. Patients are, however, required to contribute
towards the cost any benefits to which they may be entitled under the National
Health Insurance Acts or from societies to which they may be contributors.
Essential clothing in necessitous cases is also supplied during residential treatment
if not obtainable by patients from their own resources or from charity.
(2) Arrangements for the boarding out of (i) children from heavily infected
and overcrowded homes in order to remove them from risk of infection, and (ii)
children who cannot otherwise be adequately cared for during the absence of
the mother undergoing residential treatment.
(3) Open.air schools for children suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis or
from tuberculous glands who do not need residential treatment and for children
suspected to be suffering from tuberculosis or living in contact with advanced
cases of the disease.
(4) After.care clinics for certain surgical cases treated in the Council's
special tuberculosis hospitals.
Operation of
tuberculosis
scheme
during 1935.

N.B.—The above figures include cases dealt with by the Insurance Committee from 1914
to 1921.
† The figures for 1931 and 1932 include patients sent to sanatoria as "municipal" patients independently
of the tuberculosis scheme, and those for years from 1933 onwards include these patients and also
tuberculous patients treated in the Council's general hospitals, who on and after 1st April, 1933, are all
regarded as tuberculosis scheme patients.

N.B.—As from 1933 cases formerly treated in general hospitals as " municipal" patients are
included in these figures as tuberculosis scheme cases.