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Dental Treatment of Patients Referred from the Tuberculosis
Dispensary to Lodge Road.
Patients referred from the Tuberculosis Dispensary are treated
at Lodge Road Treatment Centre on Wednesday afternoons from
3.30 to 5 p.m. and after the treatments are carried out the clinics
are thoroughly disinfected. The majority of patients treated are
referred by the Tuberculosis Officer, but some are patients
discharged from Cheam before treatment is completed.

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.
Dental Report—Cheam Sanatorium.
The dental treatment for Tuberculosis patients differs from
that prescribed for ordinary patients. For instance, it is inadvisable
to indulge in protracted treatments at one sitting, inasmuch as
these people are definitely ill and their powers of endurance considerably
reduced ; moreover fatigue caused by long treatments may
aggravate the patients' condition.
Nearly all the patients admitted to the Sanatorium were dentally
inspected. Those in the acute wards were treated only when in
pain, but patients in the ordinary wards were referred for all necessary
treatment. Only those in the acute stages of Tuberculosis were