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Home Visits
Tuberculosis Medical Officer 6
Nurse 362
368
Bacteriological examinations:
Specimens of sputum examined, Positive 44
Negative 93
Total 137
Of these 73 were sent for examination by medical
practitioners in the Borough.
Forty-one cases were sent by the London Insurance Committee
for the purposes of Part III. of Form S.B.I., i.e., application for
Sanatorium Benefit; 28 of these were sent to various Sanatoria and 13
were recommended for Domiciliary benefit.
In addition 3 reports (Form C) were made to the London
County Council on persons who had treatment at a Sanatorium under
their scheme for non-insured persons.
Certain suitable cases have been treated with tuberculin, whilst
others have been placed under the more modern method of treatment
with Intensive Nascent Iodine.
From the economic point of view in relation to public health,
this latter remedy offers many and important advantages. Practically
all cases of pulmonary and other forms of tuberculosis which have not
reached too advanced a stage and amenable to this form of treatment,
which, for out-patient and dispensary work, has to a large extent
avoided the necessity for sanatorium treatment, since the patients are
able to remain at home, and for the most part to carry on full work
and earn their livelihood, while effective treatment is still being
actively carried on.
For the bulk of the population Sanatorium treatment is at best
only educational, statistics showing that stay in Sanatorium is not
sufficiently prolonged in most cases to secure permanent arrest of the
disease, as is evidenced by recurrence at varying periods, often short,
after discharge from Sanatorium.