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to encourage. During the year, 284 contacts were examined at the
Clinic. Of these, 10 were found to be suffering from Pulmonary
Tuberculosis, i.e., 3-5 per cent.
With a view to assisting in the diagnosis certain cases under
observation are sent to the Miller Hospital for radiography. Nineteen
such cases were sent during 1923. In cases in which, after a period of
observation at the Clinic the diagnosis was still uncertain a period of
intensive observation in hospital was arranged, either at Brompton or
one of the other chest hospitals. Eighteen such cases were sent for
observation during the year. Of these a positive diagnosis was made
in 7 cases and sanatorium treatment arranged.
Sixty-six deaths occurred during 1923 among the patients who had
attended the Clinic. The period which elapsed between the first
attendance and death varied between two months in one case and ten
years in another.
3 cases had attended for the first time within 3 months of death.
7 do. do. do. 6 do.
15 do. do. do. 12 do.
17 do. do. do. 24 do.
24 do. do. do. more than 2 years before.
The following table summarises the work done at the Clinic during
the year:—