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At the end of 1925 there were 494 women and children nondispensary
patients (a decrease of 14 as compared with 1924), including
new cases notified during the year on the Tuberculosis
register, and 1,173 visits were paid by the Woman Sanitary Inspector
to the homes of these patients.
Efforts are made in as many cases as possible to induce nondispensary
patients to attend the Tuberculosis Dispensary, and
during the year 13 cases were transferred.
It is satisfactory to record that the efforts to secure precautions
against infection of other members of the family appear to have
met with considerable success, e.g., separate room or separate bed
were found to be in use in over 90 per cent, of the cases, as compared
with 78 per cent, in 1924, and 68 per cent, in 1923.
It should be borne in mind, however, in this connection, that
a larger number of these patients were receiving Institutional
treatment in 1925 than in previous years.
Adult Male Patients.
There were 266 adult male non-dispensary cases on the register
at the end of 1925, and 88 were new cases notified during the year.
Of these new cases 24 died during the year.

The homes of all these patients were systematically visited
during the year by the district Sanitary Inspectors, and 610 visits,
including 88 first visits to new cases, were made. Ten of the new
cases notified were found dead on first visit. The sanitary condition
of the homes was in the main satisfactory. Of the new cases
42 received institutional treatment, and 30 were transferred to the
Dispensary.