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79
JOINT REPORT OF THE
TUBERCULOSIS MEDICAL OFFICERS.
For the Year ending December 31 st, 1913.
Having no precedent, the form in which to present
the Report was carefully considered, and it was finally
decided to use, as headings, the "functions" of a Tuberculosis
Dispensary, outlined in the Interim Report of the
Departmental Committee on Tuberculosis, as follow:—
(1) Receiving House and Centre of Diagnosis.
Total Attendances:—
(a) New Patients; and (b) Old Patients.
Particulars of New Patients:—
(a) Age-Periods and Sex; (b) Lengths of Attendances;
(c) Sources of Cases; (d) Results of
diagnosis:—(l) Oidinary Patients, and
(2) "Contacts."
Special Methods of Diagnosis:—
(a) Bacteriological; (b) X-rays; (c) Tuberculin :
(1) Subcutaneous, and (2) Percutaneous.
Clinical classification of, pulmonary tuberculosis
cases:—
(a) Inman and (b) Turban.
(2) Clearing House and Centre for Observation.
(3) Centre for Curative Treatment.