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Certain medical practitioners send reports to the Tuberculosis
Officer on patients under domiciliary treatment at
three-monthly intervals.
The majority fail to do so, but in these cases no
difficulty has been experienced in securing the attendance
at the Dispensary of the patients themselves for examination
purposes.
X-Ray Work.
Dispensary cases requiring further investigation are
referred to the X-ray department of the London County
Council Hospital at Du Cane Road, W.12.
Films of the chest and other regions are taken, and
delivered to the Dispensary to be filed as permanent
records of the respective cases.
This scheme has proved a great saving in time to
both the dispensary staff and the patient, whilst the
interval between attendance and active treatment is greatly
reduced.
The total number of X-rays and reports made by the
Tuberculosis Officer for the year was 302.
Artificial Pneumothorax Treatment.
All Borough cases in need of the continuation of this
treatment are dealt with at a special refill clinic at the Dispensary
on Wednesday afternoons. Workers unable to
attend the afternoon session are dealt with at the evening
clinic on Tuesdays at 7 p.m.
Close co-operation exists between the London County
Council sanatoria and the dispensary, and full details of
previous refills are sent by the medical superintendents
to the dispensary.
The number of cases in the Borough now receiving this
form of treatment is 12.
The total number of refills performed by the Tuberculosis
Officer in the dispensary for the year 1936 was 179.