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CHEST CLINIC, LEWISHAM
I am indebted to Dr M Farquharson for the following report
concerning the Chest Clinic at Blagdon Road, of which she is the
consultant physician:-
During 1972, 1,733 new patients attending the Chest Clinic
comprised of 391 men, 737 women and 105 children.
General Practitioners also sent 5,832 patients for X-ray; the
total attendance for medical care at the Clinic during the year
was 17,400.
The number of new Notifications of Tuberculosis remained the same
as for 1971 viz 53.
There are now 395 patients on the Tuberculosis Register. In
addition during the year 07 new patients were seen with healed
Tuberculosis. ,
BCG was given to-134 child contacts.
a large variety of chest diseases were seen at the Chest Clinic,
the bulk comprising chest infections, pleurisy, bronchitis and
asthma.
Again there were over 100 new cases of cancer of the lungs, with
only a 10fa operable rate.
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