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Residential Treatment.
217 males, 211 females and 35 children were treated in
Residential Institutions in connection with the Croydon Tuberculosis
Scheme during 1945.
Owing to the difficulty of obtaining nursing and domestic
staff and other factors connected with the War, the number of
patients treated in the Croydon Borough. Sanatorium during the
year was considerably reduced. At the end of the year there
were only 64 beds occupied, compared with 77 at the end of 1944
and the normal 94 beds in peace time.
The immediate results of treatment of patients discharged
from residential institutions during the year are as follows:—
Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
In Class T.B. Minus, 18 males, 18 females and 2 children
were discharged with the disease in a quiescent condition, i.e.,
70.4 per cent, of the total cases in this class. Five males and 9
females were nut in a quiescent condition, 26.0 per cent.; 1 male
and 1 female died, 3.0 per cent.
In Class T.B. Plus, the correspondng figures were 21 males,
14 females, and 1 child quiescent; 35.3 per cent.; 31 males and 28
females, not quiescent, 57.8 per cent.; 2 males and 5 females died,
6.9 per cent.
Taking the groups together, 47.4 per cent, of cases were
discharged as quiescent; 46.8 per cent, as not quiescent; and 5.8
per cent. died.
Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
14 patients were discharged during the year, and 64.2 per
cent, of these were quiescent.
The Chest Clinic and Home Visiting.
The subjoined table gives a summary of the work done in
connection with the Clinic.
962 new cases were examined during the year. This is equal
to 1,034 for each 100 deaths from the disease. 243 or 261 for
each 100 deaths were found to be definitely tuberculous.