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Collapse therapy should preferably be started in a hospital or
sanatorium but in successful cases the duration of residence can be
greatly curtailed and the patient be sent home, to attend when
necessary the Pneumothorax Clinic for continuation of treatment.
Pneumothorax treatment is necessarily prolonged. To produce the
maximum benefit it should be continued for from two to five years.
A Pneumothorax Clinic should be provided with proper X-Ray
equipment and pneumothorax apparatus; trained personnel, and
have two or three beds available in a ward for dealing with complications.
The existing Clinic accommodation in Katharine Street is
inadequate and unsuitable, and any Pneumothorax Clinic which
may be established in the future will have to be elsewhere. As the
number of patients who undergo Pneumothorax treatment in the
Council's Sanatorium at Cheam steadily increases, the provision of
a Pneumothorax Clinic will have to be considered. At present
the patients are sent to various London hospitals for the necessary
X-Ray examinations and refills. As Mayday Hospital is now a
unit of the Public Health department the establishment of such a
Clinic there is receiving consideration.
Notification of Tuberculosis.
Two hundred and fifty-four cases of Pulmonary tuberculosis
and 50 of Non-Pulmonary tuberculosis were notified on Form A
(primary notifications); of these 139 males and 115 females were
pulmonary cases, 25 males and 25 females non-pulmonary, In
addition 45 pulmonary cases and 20 non-pulmonary came to our
notice as new cases otherwise than by notification.