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The initiative to seek treatment when ill rests with the patient
himself, and the remedy partly lies in the education of the public
as to the symptoms and common dangers of Tuberculosis and the
need for securing early treatment. It is unfortunate that 62.4%
of the new cases were more or less advanced in the disease.
Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
There were '23 cases examined at the Clinic and found to have
Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis in the following forms:—
Bones and Joints 8
Abdominal 2
Other Organs 8
Peripheral Glands 5
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Tables XVII. and XVIII. summarise the condition of all
patients whose records are at the Clinic at the end of 1935. These
tables show that of patients who came under treatment for Pulmonary
Tuberculosis before 1926, 394 adults and 107 children have
been discharged as recovered. Of these all but 16 were early cases.
Of the 1926 cases, 23 adults, of the 1927 cases, 24 adults and 2
children, of the 1928 cases, 25 adults, and of the 1929 cases, 6 adults
and 3 children have recovered.
Of patients who first attended in 1935, 6 have been lost sight
of or otherwise removed from the Clinic Register. Of the 1934
cases 42 were lost sight of.
Of patients who attended prior to 1926, 258 adults and 14
children are known to have died; since 1926, 901 adults and 18
children are known to have died. Of patients attending for the
first time in 1935, 33 have died.
It will be seen that in the years 1926 to 1935 there have only
been 55 cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in children—16 of these
had a positive sputum, and of the latter only 3 are alive. It is
fortunate that such cases are very rare as remarkably few ever
recover.