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Board. It is fair to say that under this arrangement the specially
urgent cases were promptly removed, so that it was only a few of the
less urgent cases which suffered from the delay referred to.
A visit and enquiry was at once made to the patient's home,
and we based our conclusions on considerations of risks to other
members of the family if the sufferer was not isolated in hospital,
where satisfactory home isolation was impossible ; the state of the
patient and severity of attack; industrial and wage.earning circumstances
of the family, and the possibility of work being stopped or
curtailed in respect of one or other member of the family, if the patient
were nursed at home ; the ability and competence of the mother or
other adult to give the sufferer reasonably proper attention and
services if kept at home.