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Tuberculosis Dental Treatment.
Total attendances 399
Sessions held 51
Average attendance per session 7.8
Extractions 277 ; scalings, 10; fillings, 39 ; dentures
supplied—whole sets 11, partial sets 4;
repairs to dentures, 7; dressings, 31; advice,
128 (average per session, 9.9) 507
In the Appendix (pages 118 to 120) will be found Form T. 53,
which contains the returns required by the Ministry of Health
of the work of the Dispensary during the year 1926, and Form T.
56, which shows in a summarised form the condition of all patients
whose case records were in possession of the Dispensary at the end
of 1926, arranged according to the years (from 1921 to 1926) in
which the patients first came under public medical treatment for
pulmonary and non-pulmonary tuberculosis.
The Tuberculosis Care Committee.
The Care Committee met weekly during 1926, and the following
is a summary of the work carried out by the Committee: —
Battersea Borough Council,—extra nourishment,
166 ; housing, 3 ; arrears of rates, 1 170
Wandsworth Board of Guardians financial assistance,
13; dentures, 1 ; clothing, 10; other
assistance, 18 42
British Red Cross Society—financial assistance, 2;
clothing, 1 ; bed and bedding, 1 4
United Services Fund- financial assistance, 9;
clothing, 5 ; boarding out of children, 1 15
London County Council—housing, 5 ; travelling
expenses, 2 7
Charity Organisation Society—dentures, 7 ; financial
assistance, 6; bed and bedding, 2;
clothing, 2 17
Other Agencies 10
Training and Employment.
Former Employers or suitable agencies 6
The contributions of patients who were sent away for appropriate
institutional treatment, collected by the Dispensary and
remitted to the London County Council, amounted to £640 5s. 7d.
NON-DISPENSARY CASES.
In addition to the work carried out by the Staff of the Tuberculosis
Dispensary, visits to houses in which cases of Tuberculosis
were notified were paid by the district Sanitary Inspectors during
1926 to male patients, and by a woman Sanitary Inspector (Miss J.
Round) to women and children.