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I have tried, with success, in one or two cases of tubercular enlarged
glands a treatment which has been used in Scotland and elsewhere for
some years, namely, In-unction, with various strengths of tuberculin
ointment, and hope in future to use it in a large number of cases.
Under a new scheme with Guy's Hospital we send a number of
patients for treatment with the Artificial Sunlight and Ultra-Violet Eays,
this also has shown very good results in a number of cases. We still
send cases to Guy's Hospital for X-Ray examination and reports in cases
of doubt, this is often most useful.
The Nurses have paid a large number of visits to the homes of the
patients and do a very great amount of propaganda work in the way of
teaching the patients and their friends how to prevent infection.
We still have three shelters in constant use, and eight beds lent to
patients for use in their own homes.
550 specimens of sputum have been examined by the Borough
Analyst.
The Care Committee, which meets at the Town Hall weekly, has
been most active in its work of helping the patients themselves and
their wives and families, while the patients are away in Institutions, also
in various other ways.
One patient has been in the south of France for over a year, taken
there by a well-known lady to superintend the building of her own
house. Another family with two delicate children in whom tuberculosis
has never been diagnosed has emigrated to Australia.
A fair number of patients have secured new houses on the London
County Council Estates, and two patients have been granted houses by
the Church Army, to get them into more healthy surroundings. Two of
our patients have been continuously at work at the "Spero Leather
Works" under the London County Council, and lately the London
County Council have started a firewood factory for tuberculous ex-service
men with definite pensions for tuberculosis, and we have got one or two
patients into that also.
Extra nourishment has been given to 38 patients while waiting
admission to or on return from institutions. The Charity Organisation
Society has also been a great help to us in the way of providing patients
with clothing when going to sanatoria, and also in getting delicate but
non-tuberculous patients to Convalescent Homes.