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deals with many difficulties and queries of the tuberculous
patient.
For those compelled to remain inactive for long
periods, or who are not yet fit for full employment,
occupational therapy classes are organised and the patient
may take up leather work, or make rugs or toys. Creative
work of this kind which is suited to the patient's
capabilities has great therapeutic value in tuberculosis
as in other chronic conditions and has in many cases provided
remunerative full time work on completion of treatment.
A further step will be the wider provision of
workshops and factories for the tuberculous person."
SCABIES AND VERMINOUS CONDITIONS:
Treatment of these conditions continues to be carried out
where necessary at the permanent Health Centres and the
Isolation Hospital.
In the treatment of scabies every endeavour is made to
treat all members of the infected family irrespective of
whether they are suffering from the disease at the time of
inspection or not. The reason for this is that scabies is a
disease of slow development and once it has been introduced
into a household, the probabilities are that other apparently
non-infected members of the family may be developing the
disease.
The following table shows the number of cases and contacts
dealt with—