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Tuberculosis Dispensary.
1 submit a report on the work carried out at the Tuberculosis
Dispensary during the year under review.
Sessions have been held regularly at the Dispensary
for the examination and treatment of patients at the following
times :—
Mondays, 10.30 a.m. ... Women and Children.
Tuesdays, 5.30 p.m. ... Men and Women (Workers only).
Wednesdays, 2.30 p.m. ... Artificial Pneumothorax refill clinic.
Thursdays, 5.30 p.m. ... Men and Women (Workers only).
Fridays, 10.30 a.m. ... Men, Women and Children.
Saturdays, 10 a.m. ... School Children.
New Patients may attend at any of the Sessions.
Special appointments are held daily to suit the convenience
of those who cannot attend at the stated hours
and in cases where the consultation is likely to be a
lengthy one.
On 1st January, 1984, the number of patients on the
Dispensary Register was 715.
During the year 76 definite cases of the disease were
transferred from other areas into the Hammersmith
district and 93 moved out of this district or were lost sight
of. Thirty were written off the register as being cured
cases who had previously been notified as suffering with
tuberculosis.
New Patients.
During the year 750 persons attended for examination
for the first time, 825 males and 425 females. Of these,
288 were under the age of fifteen and 517 were adults.
Of the total 241 were referred to the Dispensary by
local practitioners for the purpose of consultation and 896
were " contacts " of persons suffering with Tuberculosis.
Patients attend the dispensary on the recommendation
of other patients, at the request of various voluntary
societies, after discharge from hospitals and sanatoria, on
the advice of general practitioners practising in the Borough
or on their own initiative.