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Reports to public bodies were made to the number of 1,004.
Consultations with medical practitioners at the houses of
patients and reports made on patients sent to the Dispensary
totalled 956, while reports received in respect of insured persons
numbered 158 (Form G.P. 36, 157, form G.P. 17, 1).
175 patients were referred to hospitals, including 142 sent
to St. Thomas's for X-ray examination.

In the Appendix (pages 119 to 121) 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 1928, 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 1928, arranged according to the years (from 1921 to 1928) in
which the patients first came under public medical treatment for
pulmonary and non-pulmonary tuberculosis.
NON-DISPENSARY CASES.
The following particulars relate to notified cases of Tuberculosis
not on the roll of patients attending the Tuberculosis Dispensary,
some of whom were subsequently transferred to the Dispensary.
These cases are systematically visited by the male and female
Sanitary Inspectors.
Women and Children.
During 1928 the number of new cases notified (including
8 notified after death) and not attending the Tuberculosis Dispensary
was 90 (women 60, children 30). There were in addition 9 cases
among women and children which came to the knowledge of the
Council either upon registration of the deaths or by information
as to the removal of the patients into the Borough. Of the notified