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118 patients were sent to King's College Hospital for X-ray
examination.
We think facilities for X-ray examination of Dispensary cases
should be extended. To limit the use of X-rays as an aid to
diagnosis is to handicap any Tuberculosis Officer seriously.
Further, the X-rays are of great use in forming any conclusion as
to the extent, etc., of the local lesion. The limitation of the
service to sputum negative cases is without justification.
Pneumothorax treatment, as an accessory to general treatment,
is available for suitable Dispensary cases. This may be
carried out while the patient is in the sanatorium, or later while
on home treatment. By arrangement, the A.P. treatment is
given at the Brompton Hospital to patients who are on home
treatment.
Sanocrysin treatment was given by two London Hospitals to
three Camberwell Dispensary patients during 1925. The individual
results were unsatisfactory. No opinion can be expressed
on the actual case for or against the gold treatment from three
cases.
The Nature and Extent of any Dental Treatment Provided by
the Council for Tuberculous Patients.
The cost of dentures supplied under the Borough dental
scheme to 14 patients in 1925 was (after deduction of Approved
Societies' grants) £43 18s. 6d.
The net cost was, however, much reduced, as the Dispensary
Voluntary Dental Fund contributed £15 Is. and patients contributed
£2 16s.
Housing and Home Conditions of 454 Cases of Tuberculosis
who were Notified for the first time in 1925.
In 53 cases the patient's family occupied a whole house
an important point in connection with the spread of tuberculosis.
In the case of 401 patients their families shared a house with
others. In 9 cases the patient's family occupied a basement.
In 66 cases the patient's family occupied the ground floor.
Invalids occupying a ground floor are saved the trouble of climbing
stairs, but are not as likely to keep their' windows open at
night. In 121 cases the patient's family occupied the first floor.
Apart from the stairs, this is a good floor for an invalid. Windows
can be kept open at night with less fear of feline and other intruders, and the street dust nuisance is not as bad as on the
ground floor. In 35 cases the patient's family occupied the second
floor. Here there are longer stairs to climb but more sunshine
and less street dust is caught than in the case of a lower floor.
In 4 cases the patient's family lived on the third floor. Here the
staircase problem is intensified and the air, especially in summer,