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Special surgical treatments included the removal of two
sequestra under local anaesthesia and the curettage of one infected
socket.
The majority of the extractions took place under regional
anaesthetics.
Of the cases whose records are at the Clinic, it will be seen
that of the total number that received sanatorium treatment during
the past five years only 45.1% 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 33.5%, or one third, are working or fit for work.
560, or 73.6% of the total cases discharged, were T.B. + cases;
142, or 18.7% of the total cases discharged, have removed from the
Borough, and as we have no information about their condition at
the end of 1936, they have been ignored in working out the above
percentages.
Dental Treatment of Tubercular Patients Referred from the
Dispensary to Lodge Road.
In the case of patients referred for treatment from the dispensary
by the Tuberculosis Officer restriction of treatment at each visit
is particularly necessary, as many have lost a certain amount of
working time through illness, and further, enforced rest that might
result from the effects of dental treatment may in some cases cause
difficulties in relation to employment on account of shock.