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Health Committee devoted much time to considering the treatment
of tuberculosis on a municipal basis and in connection therewith
to considering the desirability of founding a tuberculosis
dispensary.
A well considered scheme for the treatment of tuberculosis
will contain the following details:—
1. The provision of a Tuberculosis Dispensary at which all
the activities for dealing with the disease may be focussed. Here
patients will be treated and a search made for missed and unrecognised
cases in the family, in the house, and amongst the
relatives of the patient.
Treatment will comprise:—
(a) The provision of leaflets of instruction, spittoons, shelters
for the use of patients and disinfecting soap for the
cleansing of tenements.
(b) Medical treatment and the use of tuberculin.
(c) The disinfection of tenements on removal, periodically
on request, and after death.
2. The retention of educational beds in a sanatorium.
3. Some provision for the isolation of advanced and bed-ridden
cases, or the devising of some other means of preventing these
cases infecting the rest of the household.
4. An After Care Society.
(a) To look after the patient's family while he is out of
work or in a sanatorium.
(b) To care for the patient when he returns from a sanatorium
and to find him work.
This will include the furthering of good relations with employers
who will be willing to engage tuberculous patients, and
the keeping of a list of such employers.
For some districts a working Colony has been founded, to
which certain patients are sent after passing through the
sanatorium.