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Of the cases whose records are at the Dispensary, it will be
seen that of the total number that received sanatorium treatment
during the past five years only one-third are working or fit for work.
The remainder are dead or too ill to work. In those cases with a
positive sputum, i.e., those in whom tubercle bacilli have been
found in the sputum, only 24% or less than ¼ are working or fit
for work.
693, or 79.8% of the total cases discharged, were T.B.+ cases.
128, or 14.7% of the total cases discharged, have removed from
the Borough, and as we have no information about their condition
at the end of 1930 they have been ignored in working out the above
percentages.