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Council's lady sanitary inspectors, who has had special experience in
this work, visits the patient and reports fully to myself upon the case
and the home conditions. Each report is carefully considered, and the
Medical Officer of Health decides if the case is a suitable one for treatment
and visiting by the Tuberculosis Medical Officer and dispensary
staff. When a patient applies to the dispensary, the subsequent treatment
and home visiting is left to the staff of the dispensary ; otherwise
a case is kept under the immediate control of the Medical Officer of
Health. In either case the necessary instructions are given in the precautions
that a patient should take, and a copy of the card of advice
issued by the Council is given.
The Council provide suitable consumptives with sputum flasks
and with disinfectant.
Should a patient leave the Borough, the fact is notified to the
Medical Officer of Health of the district to which the patient removes,
and such information as I think is desirable that he should receive
concerning the case, is at once forwarded. This arrangement, while
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being of assistance to other Medical Officers of Health, also saves patients
the necessity of again supplying information concerning their illness,
etc., to the Officers of the district to which they remove.
620 visits to pulmonary cases and 92 to non-pulmonary cases, were
made during the year by the lady sanitary inspector.
The Council arrange for the free bacteriological examination of
specimens sent by medical practitioners from suspected cases of consumption.
In 1914, the total number of specimens examined for medical
practitioners was 120, of which 25 were positive, and 95 negative
Now that the Tuberculosis Dispensary is open this work is undertaken
at the Dispensary.
Disinfection is carried out during the lifetime of patients, and also
after death. The total number of premises so disinfected during 1914
was 177.
The Municipal Tuberculosis Dispensary, etc.
The constitution of the Dispensary which is housed in a portion of
the Health Institute at Kilburn, was set out at length in my report
for 1913.