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The total number of attendances at the Clinic was 5,868. The
Tuberculosis Officer paid 80 home visits and the District Health
Visitors 1,853 visits for Clinic purposes. In addition, the Health
Visitors made 329 primary visits for the purpose of the Notification
Register.
The Tuberculosis Officer paid 72 vists to Mayday Hospital,
in a consultative capacity, and there examined 336 patients.
Patients requiring home nursing or surgical dressings are
attended to by the nurses from the Croydon Nursing Service, by
arrangement with that organisation, and 620 such visits were
made during the year. Their assistance is a valuable adjunct in
the care of domiciliary cases.
Contact Examination.
The contacts of definite cases are urged to attend the Clinic
for examination (and subsequent supervision). This is an
important preventive measure. During the year 153 contacts
were examined, equal to 164 for each 100 deaths, compared with
1S1 in 1944, 267 in 1943, 238 in 1942, 227 in 1941, 278 in 1940,
325 in 1939, and 301 in 1938. Of these, 3 were considered to be
tuberculous. This is equal to a tuberculosis rate per 1,000 contacts
of 19.6 compared with 1.86 per 1,000 of the general population.
229 apointments for examination were offered to new
contacts during 1945, but only 153 new contacts attended and
were examined.
The Clinic Register of Cases.
The number of cases of Tuberculosis under the supervision
of the Clinic at the end of the year was 1,216. This is equivalent
to 6.1 persons per 1,000 of the population.
During the year 71 Clinic cases died. Of this number 12 or
16.9 per cent, were seen for the first time in 1945.
Dental Treatment for Patients Referred from the Chest CI nic to
Lodge Road.
Patients referred from the Chest Clinic are treated at Lodge
Road Treatment Centre on Wednesday afternoons from 3.30 to 5
p.m. After the treatment has been carried out the Clinic is
thoroughly disinfected.