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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
As one expects, the results are better than for Pulmonary
Tuberculosis, an appreciable number of patients being completely
cured. The distinction between inactive disease and
cure is an indefinite one, but, as a general rule, if the disease has
been inactive for three years or more, the case is classified as
cured.
Suspected Tuberculosis.—As shown in Table LII., during
the six years, 56 patients were classified as suspected cases of
Tuberculosis : 26 of them were males and 30 females; in 54
cases the suspicious lesion was pulmonary, in two it was nonpulmonary.
Many of these were treated for considerable periods,
but the diagnosis was not definitely cleared up, and at the
end of 1919 their condition was as follows:—
Removed, 22. Improved, 15. Stationary, 18. Advanced, 1.
Vaccine Treatment.—During the same period 37 patients
(16 males and 21 females) were treated with autogenous vaccines
prepared separately for each one. They were either cases of
Pulmonary Tuberculosis or were suffering from such conditions
as Asthma and Bronchitis. The results, shown below, were
good, especially in the non-tubercular cases, those suffering from
Asthma doing particularly well.

Contacts.—Of the total of 6,253 cases examined during
the six years, 2,104 were contacts, and of these, 167 were found