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The success of this clinic is now well established, and
all future cases referred from institutions will be dealt with
at the dispensary.
X-ray control is carried out at the Hammersmith Hospital.
"Sanocrysin Treatment."
Injections for sanocrysin, and the allied gold salts, are
carried out at the Dispensary, either on the recommendation
for continuation of treatment by Medical Superintendents
of Sanatoria, or when the Tuberculosis Officer considers
such treatment to be indicated for dispensary
patients.
Eighteen sanocrysin injections were made during the
year.
A Special Investigation
(Brief Summary.)
During the years 1935 and 1936 the Tuberculosis Officer
carried out a special line of research, and investigation into
the cases in the "T.B. Minus" group (this is a group in
which Tubercle Bacilli have never been found in the
sputum) on the Dispensary Register for the decade 19261935.
It had been realised for some time that many of the cases
in this group were not tuberculous, yet they had been
notified, and in due course, would have been denotified as
" recovered " from a disease which they never had.
The erroneous diagnosis of tuberculosis has a serious
psychological reaction upon the patient, important social
and economic consequences arise, domestic relationship
are strained, and definite industrial difficulties arise.
To conclusively prove the absence of a tubercular lesion
to such a patient has a natural reaction, individualism is
changed, and the social circle of events is renewed.