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Adults.
Sanatoria (contd.)
Homes.
Chilton House.
Tait.
Manchester.
Seaview, St. Leonards.
Standish House.
St. Michael's, Axbridge.
Rushden House.
St. Barnabas, Torquay.
Victoria, Davos, Switzerland.
Bishopsbourne, Broadstairs.
St. George's, Chelsea.
Colonies.
Burrow Hill.
Papworth, Cambridgeshire.
Preston Hall, Kent.
Children.
Hospitals.
Sanatoria and Homes.
Highwood, Brentwood.
Nay land.
Alexandra Hip.
Alton, Lord Mayor Treloar.
Cheyne.
Millfield, Rusting ton.
Heatherwood, Ascot.
North Devon Children's
Princess Mary's, Margate.
Brockley Hill.
Queen Mary's, Carshalton.
Dorset Red Cross, Swanage.
The average duration of residential treatment given by the
London County Council in 1925 to 291 adults was 15.1 weeks.
The average duration of residential treatment given to 40 children
by the London County Council in 1925 was 18.6 weeks. This
refers only to those who began treatment in that year. Many of
these patients will remain in institutions during varying periods
of 1926—some will probably remain the whole year. The ultimate
averages are therefore to be reckoned as considerably higher. It
should also be remembered that a good many patients took their
discharge before the completion of treatment, thereby reducing
the possible averages.
The Work of the Tuberculosis Dispensary for the Year 1925.
1,555 persons were examined for the first time during the
year. Of these 1,295 were examined at the Dispensary and 260
at home. 1,532 old patients re-attended, making the total number
of persons who attended the Dispensary 3,087—exclusive of
those seen at home. Medical practitioners sent 614 new patients
for diagnosis or consultation, as compared with 603 in 1924, 698
in 1923, 607 in 1922 and 662 in 1921. 729 patients who had
attended in previous years were sent for renewed consultation.
The total attendances at the Dispensary numbered 9,326. 33
persons were under observation at the Dispensary on January 1st,
1925, pending diagnosis. Adding those examined for the first
time during 1925, the total coming for diagnosis in 1925 was 1,588.
Of these 346 were found to have active tuberculosis, 1,126 were
discharged as not suffering from tuberculosis and 54 remained
under observation on December 31st, 1925, pending diagnosis.
An analysis of persons dealt with by the Dispensary for diagnosis
in 1925 is given in Table XIX.