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Residential Treatment
200 men, 161 women and 34 children were admitted to Residential
Institutions in Croydon during 1958.
The Chest Clinic and Home Visiting
2,064 new cases were examined during the year. 153 were
found to be definitely tuberculous.
The total number of attendances for examination at the (Jiest
Clinic was 19. 260. There were also 698 attendances hy patients
for collapse therapy.
Hie Clinic doctors paid 356 home visits and the Tuberculosis
Visitors 3,585 visits for Clinic purposes. In addition the
Tuberculosis Visitors made 335 primary visits for the purposes
of the Notification Register. There were also 2, 245 unsuccessful
visits made.
Patients requiring home nursing or surgical dressings are
attended to by the nurses from the Croydon Nursing Association,
by arrangement with that organisation. Their assistance is a
valuable adjunct in the care of domiciliary cases.
Contact Examination
The examination and subsequent supervision of persons coming
into contact with patients suffering from Tuberculosis plays an
important part in the prevention of the spread of infection.
During 1958, 748 persons were examined for the first time as
contacts of notified cases of Tuberculosis, giving a contactcase
ratio of 4 for each notified case during the year.
Of these contacts, 10 were found to be tuberculous. This is
equal to a Tuberculosis rate per 1,000 contacts of 14 compared
with 1.12 per 1,000 of the general population. In addition,
there were 13 found to be tuberculous who had been under
observation from previous years.
The number of new contacts examined, together with the
numbers of new cases of Tuberculosis notified in previous years
are as follows: -