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TUBERCULIN DISPENSARY.
(provisional.)
The period covered by this report is from May 31st, 1913, to
April 30th. 1914.
There were 36 cases undergoing treatment on 31st May 1913.
The number of cases treated during the period under consideration
was 121.
The number of patients treated with a full course of injections,
during a period of 8 months or more, was 35.
Number of injections given in these full course cases 931.
Number of patients treated during a period of 1 to 2 months, 33.
Number of patients treated under 1 month, 53.
In the 53 cases treated for a period of less than 1 month, the reason
given for discontinuing the treatment was, removal out of district in 15,
gone to work in country in 12, removed to workhouse in 5, too ill to
attend in 4, left without reason given in 17.
Of the 35 full course cases, in 20 cases the disease was arrested and
the patients at work, in 10 cases the patients were much improved and
at ordinary work. In 4 cases the patients were improved, and in 1
case the patient died. Since the starting of this dispeusary the percentage
of the insured persons treated to the total number was 40.0:—