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34
Contacts:
(a) Definitely Tuberculous 7 — 7
(b) Diagnosis not completed 88 — 88
(c) Non-tuberculous 77 — 77
172
Cases Written Off:
(a) Recovered 34
(4) Diagnosis not confirmed 1
(c) Transferred out of Area 30
(d) Deaths 25
(c) Lost Sight of 11
101
Number of attendances at Dispensary 2,310
Home visits by Tuberculosis Officer 27
Visits made by Tuberculosis Visitor 546
Specimens of sputum examined 292
Number of patients attending for artificial
pneumothorax refills 45
Number of refills given .. .. .. .. 454
X-Ray Department.
Details of the work in the X-Ray department during 1948 are
as follows:—
Chest cases: Large films used 1,091
Small films used 163
Screen examinations 768
Other cases : Private Medical Practitioners 30
Physiotherapy Dept. 17
Day Nursery Staff 5
Tuberculosis Maintenance Allowances Scheme.
The scheme for the provision of maintenance allowances in
certain cases, for the dependants of patients who have to give up
remunerative work in order to undergo treatment, and to persons
who, though having no dependants, are still in need of allowances
during institutional or home treatment, continued to operate smoothly