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&c., do not accurately represent the amount of institutional treatment,
for several seem to have left the Infirmary for the sake of
dying at home.
TUBERCULOSIS, 1915.
Inspector.
Overcrowding.
Ordinary.
Total.
Notices.
Intimations.
Notices.
Intimations.
6
35
H. C. Green
...
...
29
G. G. Morley
5
3
8
...
...
H. N. Jones
...
...
...
...
...
1
R. F. Nash
...
11
12
...
M. Malins
49
19
68
...
...
W. Eagle
.
11
5
16
...
14
G. W. Scudamore
1
11
2
...
G. T. Dewey
26
7
33
...
...
W. R. Farmer
..
...
...
...
...
J. S. Pointon
1
1
...
...
...
E. R. Collins
...
...
...
...
...
...
143
43
187
1
So far as the detailed tuberculosis work is concerned, it has
gone on as before ; and even in spite of the reduction in staff, there
is an increase in the number of visits and re-visits that have been
paid to those notified. These re-visits have not been so successful
in discovering early and non-notified cases as one might have hoped,
for only in a few instances were the inspectors called upon to
advise the seeking of medical aid for the remaining members of the
family. It is possible, however, that for this the existence of the
Tuberculosis Dispensary is in part accountable, for all over the
Borough people are learning of its existence through recommendations
of past and present patients, and a growing inclination to
take early notice of chest symptoms has possibly been stimulated by
the visits of the Tuberculosis Officer to the patients' homes. The
Dispensary has been engaged in carrying on the work of examination
of the other members of the family of those who have gone to
them to be treated, and that this has resulted in other cases of
presumed tuberculosis may be held as proved by the large number
of secondary cases reported by that institution. Not only do we
get such cases from the Dispensary, but also from some of the
hospitals, especially those who are in the habit of sending their
representatives to the homes of phthisical people who have attended
for treatment.
The negotiations with the Dispensary still drag on, with the
result of the useless duplication of work, for much that we do under
the Orders of the Local Government Board is also carried out by
the Dispensary.
So long as the powers that be are convinced that a Dispensary