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Of these 514 were not accepted for treatment under the Council's scheme ;
197 patients were examined at the County Hall, and their disposal then determined ;
1,313 were referred to observation hospitals for admission as a preliminary step
to their disposal; 3,766 were accepted for admission direct to institutions on the
reports of the medical officers recommending the cases, and in 79 cases the applications
for various reasons were not proceeded with. In 369 of the cases for residential
treatment, the patients for various reasons failed to enter observation hospitals or
other institutions, and their applications were treated as withdrawn. In 182 other
cases treatment was not commenced before the end of the year.
As a general principle, the cases passed through the observation beds are
patients in whom the diagnosis has not been confirmed by the presence of tubercle
bacilli in the sputum; patients with acute symptoms ; and patients with wellmarked
disease whose suitability for sanatorium treatment can be determined only
after a few weeks' close observation. Cases examined at the County Hall aremainly
those in which the diagnosis has been confirmed by the presence of tubercle
bacilli in the sputum and in respect of which there appears, on examination of the
reports, to be doubt as to the suitability of the patients for sanatorium treatment,
and cases of surgical tuberculosis. Cases sent direct to sanatoria are chiefly applicants
for further treatment, whose condition and prospects are already known.

During the year 1,334 patients were discharged from observation hospitals
and 4,878 from other institutions.