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Examinations and Reports.
Sputum examinations made during the year numbered 1,592,
of which 619 were received from Medical practitioners, and 399
from St. James's Hospital. The number of positive examinations
was 305 or 19.16 per cent.
Reports to public bodies were made to the number of 1,208.
Consultations with medical practitioners at the houses of
patients and reports made on patients sent to the Dispensary
totalled 1,011, while reports received in respect of insured persons
numbered 86 (Form G.P. 36, 86, form G.P. 17, nil).
There were 202 patients referred to hospitals, including 179 sent
to St. Thomas's for X-ray examination.
In the Appendix (pages 113 to 115) 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 1929, 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 1929, arranged according to the years (from 1921 to 1929) 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 1929 the number of new cases notified (including
7 notified after death) and not attending the Tuberculosis Dispensary
was 94 (women 57, children 37). There were in addition 7 cases
among women and children which came to the knowledge of the
Medical Officer of Health either upon registration of the deaths or
by information as to the removal of the patients into the Borough.
Of the notified cases, after correction and adjustment of the figures
as to cases not traced, transferred to the Dispensary and to other
districts, and cases in regard to which no information could be
obtained, the following particulars are given :—
There were 30 deaths (including 9 of tubercular meningitis)
recorded amongst these 94 notified cases. In 12 cases death had
occurred prior to the first visit and 18 deaths were subsequently
recorded during the year. In addition there were 5 deaths of
unnotified cases, not included in the above 94 cases.