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SECTION V.
PREVENTION AND CONTROL. OF TUBERCULOSIS.
The Tuberculosis Clinic is situated at 13, Katharine Street.
The premises are not suitable, being cramped and noisy. Sessions
are held daily in the mornings and afternoons except on Monday
mornings and Thursday afternoons. An evening session is held
on Tuesdays. The Clinic is primarily a diagnostic and advisory
centre. To it come patients sent by doctors, cases under observation
and cases under treatment at home. From it patients are
drafted to various Sanatoria and Hospitals or back to their private
practitioner.
I am indebted to Dr. J. C. McMillan, the Assistant Medical
Officer of Health for Tuberculosis, for the greater part of this
section of the report.
An efficient Clinic dealing with Tuberculosis should have an
X-ray plant on the premises. Although the facilities for obtaining
X-ray reports and films are good, the medical officer in charge of
the Clinic loses the great advantage of making his own screen
observations and taking his X-rays. The patients also are put
to some inconvenience by the present arrangements. For the
carrying out of Collapse Therapy X-ray control is absolutely
essential, consequently the Clinic is unable to undertake artificial
Pneumothorax refills. As this treatment is being used at the
Cheam Sanatorium it would be advantageous to the patients if
they could, on their discharge from the Sanatorium, obtain necessary
refills in Croydon, instead of, as at present, having to go up
to London or to Cheam.
Notification of Tuberculosis.
Two hundred and ten cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis and 38
of Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis were notified on Form A (primary
notifications), of these 113 males and 97 females were Pulmonary
cases, 14 males and 24 females Non-Pulmonary. In addition 60
Pulmonary cases and 17 Non-Pulmonary came to our notice as
new cases otherwise than by notification.