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Residential Treatment
224 men, 171 women and 21 children were admitted to Residential
Institutions in Croydon during 1960.
The Chest Clinic and Home Visiting
1,857 new cases were examined during the year. 127 were
found to be definitely tuberculous.
The total number of attendances for examination at the chest
Clinic was 17,148. There were also 23 attendances by patients
for collapse therapy.
The Clinic doctors paid 308 home visits and the Tuberculosis
Visitors 4,177 visits for Clinic purposes. In addition the
Tuberculosis Visitors made 240 primary visits for the purposes
of the Notification Register. There were also 2, 115 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 1960, 676 persons were examined for the first time as
contacts of notified cases of Tuberculosis, giving a contactcase
ratio of 5 for each notified case during the year.
Of these contacts, 9 were found to be tuberculous. This is
equal to a Tuberculosis rate per 1,000 contacts of 13 compared
with 0.85 per 1,000 of the general population. In addition,
there were 4 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:-