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Eighty of the new patients were found to be suffering from pulmonary
tuberculosis, though not all in an active stage of the disease. Six suffered
from other forms of tuberculosis. Nineteen were recommended for
sanitorium treatment and 26 for admission to hospital. Six hundred and
two reports were made to public authorities and 131 to medical
practitioners.
During this period 556 X-ray films were taken and 92 specimens
submitted for bacteriological examination.
Tuberculosis—Maintenance A llowances.
The Ministry of Health treatment allowances continued to be of value
to patients who fall into the categories eligible and the following applications
were dealt with during the period under review :—
Applications received 29
Applications granted 26
Allowances stopped during this period for the following reasons:—
(a) Returned to work 9
(b) Refused treatment 1
(c) Died 8
(d) Left the district 4
(e) End of period 1
(f) In Institutions and receiving National Health
Insurance 2
(g) In receipt of Army pension
An average of 52 patients are drawing allowances at any given time.
Mass Miniature Radiography.
Reference was made in last year's report to the arrangements made
with the London County Council for their Miniature Radiography Unit
to operate in one of the City Council's Depots, where residents and
persons employed in the City could be examined, and for a mobile unit to
visit the premises of firms where large numbers of persons were employed.
These units were available for this purpose from November, 1947, to
March, 1948.
Some 20,775 persons were examined during this period, 9,195 of these
were women and 11,580 men.
Twenty thousand five hundred and eight persons were found to show
satisfactory results of chest X-ray. The remainder consisted of 228 (140
men and 88 women) whose films showed some evidence of tuberculous
infection (1.09 per cent.), and 39 where some abnormality of lungs or
heart not of a tuberculous nature was noted.
Whilst the main object of the examination is the early detection of
tuberculosis of the lungs, other conditions are sometimes revealed.