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Reasons for Discharge.
Number fit for elementary school 2
Number fit for work 8
Number transferred to hospital or sanatorium -
Number removed from district -
Number transferred to special school -
Number discharged for other reasons 2
Gain or Loss of Weight of Children who have been in the School for more than
twelve months.
Number of children who have shown a gain in weight 19
Average gain in kilos 3·6
Number of children who lost weight or whose weight was
stationary -
Average loss in kilos -
The Care Work of the Tuberculosis Dispensary in 1925.
Some figures which follow are given with the view of showing
important points in connection with the care work of the Tuberculosis
Dispensary in 1925.
1. The opportunity the staff had of ascertaining if needs of
any kind were interfering with the proper treatment of the tuberculous
patients of the Borough or were tending to the spread of
the disease. During 1925, 10,613 home visits were paid by the
Dispensary staff—9,296 visits by the Tuberculosis Nurses and
1,317 by the Tuberculosis Officers. The attendances at the Dispensary
of tuberculous patients, i.e., patients on the current
Notification Register, numbered 5,032. (We have omitted from
this consideration the attendances of non-tuberculous contacts
at the Dispensary for examination. It should, however, be mentioned
that on very many of their visits we had the opportunity
of ascertaining if things were going well or badly at home.) There
were 931 attendances (not included in any other figures in the
Report) at the office of the Care Work Secretary. During the
year 1,504 letters were sent to patients or to their relatives, letters
which gave an opportunity, in the answer, of stating if anything
was going wrong. The Dispensary staff, therefore, had 18,080
opportunities (indirect only in the case of the letters) of face and ascerting
if all was well—apart from the purely medical sense
with the tuberculous patients of the Borough and their families.
Opportunities doubtless were missed, but we do feel that the
spirit of care work pervades every member of the Dispensary staff.
From Voluntary and other Societies and from private individual
—from, in fact, many well-wishers and helpers of the
tuberculous, we received much assistance by our attention being
drawn to needy cases, also in dealing with the needs. We have
not included these in the above figures, which relate to the official
staff only.