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Fever Hospital in December 1968, and although this is under the charge of the
Professor of Medicine, St Thomas' Hospital, it will naturally be used, if arfd when
necessary, for other patients in the South Western Hospital.
It would seem that owing to some of the re-routing of public transport which
has taken place in this area, fewer buses are available for the Chest Clinic
patients. The Hospital authorities have this clearly in mind, and discussions
are going on with the appropriate authorities.
Domiciliary Visits continue as before, and there is little doubt that the
increased number of contacts which have been traced in the last year, have placed
an extra burden on the Health Visitor. Chemotherapy in the home continues as
before.
It will be seen that the number of new cases of pulmonary tuberculosis runs
at approximately three per week, although the majority of these are not from this
district.