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The Necessity for Early Treatment to Ensure the Prospects
of Recovery.
Under the London County Council Residential Institutional
Scheme patients suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis are, as a
rule, sent away within two weeks of application.
The average duration of residential treatment given by the
London County Council in 1938 to 334 adults was 17-04 weeks.
The number of adults who received residential treatment in 1938
is 50 more than in the previous year. The average duration of
residential treatment given to 53 children by the London County
Council was 24-9 weeks. This refers only to those who began
treatment in that year. Many of these will remain in institutions
during varying periods of 1939. Some will probably remain the
whole year. The ultimate averages are therefore to be reckoned as
considerably higher. It should be remembered that a good many
patients took their discharge before completion of treatment
thereby reducing the possible averages.
Institutional (Residential) Treatment of Camberwell
Patients in 1938 through the London County Council.
1. Adult Males :—
Number of applicants for residential treatment ...
Number who received residential treatment ... ... ... 17 <
Number who did not receive residential treatment: —
Not accepted ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 6
Failed to enter ... ... ... ... ... ... .. 2
Awaiting residential treatment December 31st, 1938 ... 1
Classification of Adult Males who received Residential Treatment.
Pulmonary cases in which tubercle bacilli had not been found in
the sputum ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
Pulmonary cases in which tubercle bacilli had been found in
the sputum ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
Early pulmonary tuberculosis ... ... ... ... ... 21
Moderately advanced pulmonary tuberculosis ... ... 87
Advanced pulmonary tuberculosis ... ... ... ... 6
Surgical tuberculosis... ... ... ... ... ... ... 7
Diagnosis of tuberculosis ... ... ... ... ... ...
Not classified ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 12
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