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During the year 278 domiciliary visits were paid by the Tuberculosis
Officer at the request of the Ministry of Pensions. These
visits are paid, in consultation with the Medical attendant, where
the ex-service pensioner is too ill to attend the Dispensary, and
where the report of the Dispensary Nurse or the home conditions
appear to call for such special action.
The home visits by the Dispensary Nurses during 1924
numbered 6,534.
1. Average stay of patients in sanatorium 16 weeks 4 days
2. Number of patients improved 47
3. Number of patients who took their own
discharge 18
1. Number of Dispensary patients who died during
the year 1924 118
2. Number of patients discharged or cured or
disease arrested during 1924 30
3. Number of patients recorded as ceasing to
attend during 1924 27
4. Number of patients removed to other districts
and transferred to the Medical Officer of
Health of district concerned 40
During the year 114 patients were sent away to Institutions
under the London County Council scheme—insured 79, uninsured
35. In addition 39 patients were, on the recommendation of the
Tuberculosis Officer, admitted to St. James's Hospital.
The number of sputum examinations made at the Tuberculosis
Dispensary was 1,265. In 299 (23.6 per cent.) the result was positive.
Of the total number of sputums examined 407 were sent in
by Medical Practitioners practising in the borough, and 214 examinations
were made for St. James's Hospital.
The number of reports sent to public bodies during the year
was 986.
There was an increase in the number of new patients sent in
by local medical practitioners, and, in addition, many old patients
were referred back for further examination and opinion. Progress
reports on insured patients are submitted to the Tuberculosis
Officer by the patient's medical attendant. During 1924, consultations
with medical practitioners at the homes of their patients,
and reports on patients sent by them to the Dispensary, numbered
735.
89 patients were referred to hospitals and 71 difficult and
doubtful cases were sent to St. Thomas's Hospital for X-ray