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The subjoined graph shows the weekly attendances of patients, both before and
after 1st July, 1930, when the clinic was taken over by the Council.
The Council's Tuberculosis Scheme.
Residential
treatment.
Residential treatment for tuberculous persons (adults and children) ordinarily
resident in the county of London is provided by the Council (a) under its
tuberculosis scheme in its own special hospitals and sanatoria and in approved
voluntary institutions and (b) as "municipal" patients in its own general hospitals
and also in approved voluntary institutions.
Broadly speaking, patients who are likely to improve materially from residential
treatment and a proportion of more advanced cases with reasonable prospect
of restoration to some degree of working capacity are dealt with under the
tuberculosis scheme, and the remaining patients, those acutely ill and
those with chronic disease, are treated as "municipal" cases. Of the latter,
patients confined to bed or mainly bedridden are accommodated in general
hospitals, and those able to be up for some eight hours a day without rise of
temperature are sent to residential institutions in the country provided with grounds
and facilities for occupation. The patients are distributed among suitable institutions
having regard to their needs. Cases in institutions both under the Council's tuberculosis
scheme and in the Council's general hospitals are reviewed from time to time
and interchanges are effected so that the accommodation at the disposal of the
Council is used to the best advantage.
The subjoined information concerns patients treated under the Council's
tuberculosis scheme.