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If the Council favourably receives our report, it will be
necessary either to adapt an existing house, or erect a suitable
building where all not already under medical care may go for
treatment free of charge.
In either case we shall reap the benefit of the experience
of those pioneer institutions it has been our privilege to visit.
Briefly, the most important measures carried out by the
Dispensaries are :—
1. The visiting of consumptives in their homes for
the purpose of instructing them as to the best means to be
there adopted both for their own health and for the prevention
of the spread of infection to other inmates.
2. The treatment at home of such cases as are unfitted
to receive treatment at the Dispensary.
3. The treatment by Tuberculin.
4. The provision of outdoor shelters to be lent in
certain suitable cases.
5. The searching out of contact and early cases of
disease with a view to securing for them treatment before
the disease has become advanced.
6. The formation of an open air school.
7. The removal to hospital of cases in need of complete
rest and better food than they could otherwise obtain.
8. The bacteriological examination of the sputum of
the patients of medical practitioners.
9. The supply of pocket sputum flasks or boxes, and
the distribution of literature for the guidance of consumptives.