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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Fulham 1914
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1914
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| 215 | |||
Examination of Contacts-
The Contacts of all tuberculous patients under treatment
are examined as a routine measure, and 311 such examina.
tions were made; the great majority being examined in their
own homes. Table I. shows that 212 of the new patients
were contacts; many of these were, however, not contacts of
definite cases.
The routine examination of contacts during the year
has been the means of bringing under treatment 41 new
tuberculous cases, most of which in all probability would
have been left untouched until a much later stage of the
disease.
Treatment of Individual Cases-
This is on Sanatorium lines, with the addition of special
measures such as tuberculin, which was used in 109 cases.
The results of the tuberculin treatment of lung cases are not
as good in Dispensary as in Sanatorium work, but many
patients benefit greatly from its use. The results are
specially good in gland cases in which the glands have
broken down and ruptured on the surface.