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Five cases only were referred at an advanced stage of disease - Group III
Table I, all others in Groups I and II were diagnosed at an early or moderately
advanced stage with good prospects of recovery under treatment.

Table 2 compares Chest Clinic figures since 1951 and demonstrates the
continued fall in the total number of cases on the register, the reduction in
incidence up to this year and and the overall decline in the death rate.
Treatment
The majority of new cases included in Table 2 were given treatment initially
in hospital subsequently continuing chemo-therapy as out-patients. A small
number of chronic suffering relapse were re-admitted to hospital - some to
the tuberculosis ward in Dulwich Hospital where an average of 18 beds were
occupied. Of these, 5 were kept occupied by patients from the Tuberculosis
Hostel for men at Knight's Hill.
There were 60 hospital admissions during the year and 94 out-patients under
active chemo-therapy. B.C.G. vaccination was given to contacts at special risk
including new-borns and children not yet old enough to be included in the London
County Council's programme for routine B.C.G. vaccination of school children.