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The Nursing Staff, in addition to their activities
in regard to contacts, carry out extensive supervision
of patients and their home conditions.
During the course of their visiting it is inevitable
that defects of sanitation and housing become known
and all such cases are reported to the Medical Officer
of Health.
Co-operation of Medical Practitioners.
The Tuberculosis Dispensary has always been a
well-supported institution in the Borough: and it
is a great pleasure to record that co-ordination
between local doctors and the Tuberculosis Officer
(as representing the Public Tuberculosis Scheme)
continues to be on a very friendly footing, and
well maintained.
Suspected cases are welcomed at the Dispensary
where they can be put under special and prolonged
observation, during which time repeated tests of
sputum, X-rays, and "Mantoux" Tuberculin tests
(specially in the case of children) can be carried out.
No new cases (having already a doctor in
attendance) are seen without a communication from
him either by visiting card and letter, or telephone:
and the results of examinations are invariably communicated
by letter.
This rule, the abeyance of which might lead to
a great deal of friction and misunderstanding on all
sides is most rigidly adhered to.
Dental Treatment.
It is found that a large number of those attending
the Dispensary clinics suffer from defective teeth,
ranging from slight cases of decay to very bad
conditions of caries and pyorrhoea.