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543 Mantoux tests have been carried out, of which the following are the results.

As is stated elsewhere all negative reactors are requested to attend the following year
for re-test, but it is often difficult to persuade parents and guardians that this is necessary,
as they appear to think that because tests in one year are negative they will always be so in
the future.
Clerical Department. The work in this department, which includes keeping of registers
for the Ministry of Health's returns, is carried on by Miss Sargent, clerk to the Dispensary
and secretary to the Care Committee, assisted by Miss Grimstone on a part-time basis.
During 1935 there were:—
Letters written 5,478
Reports to Doctors 708
Reports to Public Bodies 640
In addition to this work Miss Sargent has, in the course of her work, numerous
interviews with patients or their relatives concerning ways and means, and is in close touch
with County Hall regarding the provision of institutional treatment.
It can be readily understood that this takes a great deal of time, and in many cases
considerable tact and sympathy is necessary.
Conclusion. I wish to express my appreciation of the able manner in which Dr. Harley
Stevens and Dr. Gregory Kayne acted as locum tenens officers during so many months of 1935.
To those members of the Dispensary Staff, Miss Sargent and her helper in the clerical
department, Miss Robinson, who has again rendered signal service in Mantoux testing and
bacteriological work, and to the Tuberculosis Health Visitors and the Janitor, I wish to
accord my best thanks for their unfailing assistance at all times during a somewhat difficult
year.