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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 31.2% are working or fit for work.
The remainder are dead or too ill to work. In those oases with a
positive sputum, i.e., those in whom tubercle bacilli have been
found in the sputum, only 23% or less than ¼ are working or fit
for work.
694, or 80% of the total cases discharged, were T.B.+ cases;
122, or 14% of the total cases discharged, have removed from
the Borough, and as we have no information about their condition
at the end of 1931 they have been ignored in working out the above
percentages.
CHEAM SANATORIUM.

Immediate Results of Treatment.

At the beginning of 1931 there were 74 patients in Cheam.
During the year 180 were admitted and 142 discharged, whilst 20
died, thus leaving 92 patients in at the beginning of 1932,