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The Clinic doctors paid 252 home visits and the Tuberculosis
Visitors 4,053 visits for Clinic purposes. In addition, the
Tuberculosis Visitors made 429 primary visits for the purposes
of the Notification Register.
Patients requiring home nursing or surgical dressings are
attended to by the nurses from the Croydon Nursing Service, by
arrangement with that organisation. Their assistance is a valuable
adjunct in the care of domiciliary cases.
Contact Examination.
The contacts of definite cases are urged to attend the Clinic
for examination (and subsequent supervision). This is an
important preventive measure. During the year 661 contacts
were examined. Of these, 10 were considered to be tuberculous.
This is equal to a tuberculosis rate per 1,000 contacts of 15 compared
with 1.32 per 1,000 of the general population. In addition
there were 4 found to be tuberculous who had been under observation
from previous years.
The Clinic Register of Cases.
The number of cases of Tuberculosis under the supervision
of the Clinic at the end of the year was 1,766. This is equivalent
to 7 persons per 1,000 of the population.
During the year 51 Clinic cases died. Of this number six
or 11.8 per cent. were seen for the first time in 1952.