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CHEST CLINIC REPORT
I am indebted to Dr. J. L. Brown, Chest Physician at the
Greenwich Chest Clinic for the following Report on Tuberculosis in
the Borough.
The Greenwich Chest Clinic is a very well equipped modern
building with adequate accommodation. Under a re-organisation
scheme completed at the end of 1955 there are now two medical
consulting rooms, a Nurses' reception room, Almoner's office and
patients' waiting room, and a modern X-ray Department with a
4-valve 400 m.a. X-ray apparatus including tomograph and an
Odelca 70 mm. camera unit. A centralised and compact X-ray
and note filing room has now been arranged and more office accommodation
has been made available for the clerical staff. In addition
there are two small adjoining buildings which are used for occupational
therapy and dressmaking classes for patients.
The Clinic is part of the Miller, St Alfege's Hospital Group and
deals with all forms of chest disease from the diagnostic, therapeutic,
social and preventive aspects. The Physicians admit some of their
patients requiring in-patient treatment to their beds in St. Alfege's
Hospital and also have access through the Regional Hospital Board
to beds in specialised chest units and Sanatoria, principally Joyce
Green and Bow Arrow Hospitals at Dartford, for short term treatment,
the Eversfield Hospital, St. Leonards-on-Sea for long term
treatment, Grove Park and the Brook Hospitals for thoracic surgery
—both tuberculous and non-tuberculous—and the Royal Sea
Bathing Hospital, Margate, for orthopaedic and renal tuberculosis.
Notified cases
on Clinic Register
Pulmonary
Tuberculosis
Non-pulmonary
Tuberculosis
Total
Men
Women
Children
Men
Women
Children
31st Dec. 1956:- 495 431 41 15 19 10 1,011
31st Dec. 1957:- 531 456 45 13 19 11 1,075
Inward Transfers
during 1957 29 26 6 2 1 — 64
Outward Transfers
during 1957 20 19 2 — — — 41
Recovered 11
De-notified 3
Primary notifications 75
New Patients 1,981
Ante Natal X-rays 424