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The following table gives some details of the work of the
Dispensary since 1920:—
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
No. of new applicants
479
415
422
365
299
Total attendance
2327
1738
1534
1601
1359
No. of Clinics held
185
198
196
197
197
Average attendance
12.5
9
7.8
8.1
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Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1924.
By these Regulations, which came into operation on 1st January,
1925, additional responsibilities and duties have been placed upon the
Local Sanitary Authority and its Officers. It is now incumbent upon
the Local Medical Officer of Health to furnish the County Medical
Officer of Health with a statement showing:—
(a) The number of cases of tuberculosis on his Register at the
commencement of each quarter.
(b) The number of cases notified to him under the Regulations of
1912 for the first time during each quarter.
(c) The number of cases removed from the Register during each
quarter (giving the name and address of each such case,
and the reason for such removal;, and
(d) The number of cases remaining on the Register at the end of
each quarter.
Separate figures are required in each case for males and females
and for pulmonary and non-pulmonary cases.
Certain other administrative details are now required, and in order
that the Register may contain as accurate a list as possible of the cases
of tuberculosis in the Borough, it is now considered desirable that
there shall also be removed from the Register, in addition to those
known to have died or to have ceased permanently to reside in the
Borough, those cases in which after notification (a) the diagnosis is
agreed not to be established, or (b) the patient in due course attains a
condition in which he may be regarded as cured of the disease. In the
case of other notified persons, such inquiries as may be practicable are
required from time to time to be made of the notifying practitioner
with a view to keeping the Register up to date.
In their circular letter of 22nd December the Ministry state that
it is desirable that all tuberculosis of the respiratory system should be
placed in the category of pulmonary cases, and accordingly tuberculous