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Nature and results of treatments:—
(a) Routine; (b) Institutional:—(1) Sanatoria
(including Tuberculosis Hospitals), (2)
General Hospitals, and (3) Poor Law
Institutions (c) Tuberculin.
Economic classification of results of treatment.
Open air schools for children.
(4) Centre for the Examination of "Contacts."
(5) Centre for "After-care."
(6) Information Bureau and Educational Centre.
(I) Receiving House and Centre of Diagnosis.
The total attendances of patients at the Dispensaries,
with particulars as to ages and sex, are set out in full
in Table I. The patients are also tabulated urder the
headings insured and "non-insured." These numbers
of attendances are encouraging, viz., new patients 1,036.
and old patients, 4,097—a total of 5,133. The comparatively
large number of women attending as compared
with men is due to what might be called the "hospital
habit" amongst the former and the reluctance of the
latter to be examined for fear that they should be required
to give up work.
The lengths of attendances of patients vary, but for
the purposes of classification (see Table I.), it has been
deemed advisable to sub-divide them into two main
classes, viz.: (a) one month and over, and (b) under one
month—the latter including (1) cases sent for opinion only.
(2) cases unfit to attend personally as patients, (3) cases
diagnosed as not tuberculous, or doubtful, (4) "contacts,"
and (5) cases belonging and transferred to other districts.
Many patients were transferred to, and from, other
districts, due to the migratory nature of the population—
a fact which might have proved an administrative
difficulty in dealing with the disease from the point of