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Treatment—
Domiciliary.—32 by private doctor, 8 by panel doctor,
26 attending out-patient departments of hospitals.
30 of these were subsequently transferred to the
Tuberculosis Dispensary.
Institutional.—56 were receiving hospital, sanatorium, or
other forms of institutional treatment during the year.
Financial Circumstances of Patients.—25 good, 42 fair, 55
bad.
Habits.—86 good, 29 fair, 7 bad.

Sputum flasks were in use in 9 cases, and 7 other patients
consented to use them, and were supplied free from the Public
Health Department.
The total number of visits paid by the Woman Sanitary
Inspector to notified cases of Tuberculosis amongst women and
children during the year was 1,157. Of these 11 were in respect
of home reports required in connection with Form B for the London
County Council.
The Woman Inspector also attends regularly the meetings of
the Tuberculosis Care Committee.
Of the above, 1,029 revisits were paid to new and old
cases. The total number of cases on the register at the end
of the year was 557. Many of these cases are chronic, and
have been on the register for years, and are not receiving medical
attention. As, however, they refuse either to attend the
Dispensary or see a doctor, though urged to do so, they are
kept under supervision and visited occasionally, and every
effort is made to induce them, sometimes with success, to attend
the Tuberculosis Dispensary for periodical examination.