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offer of treatment in a country hospital during the winter in one, two or three of
the years 1956-57, 1957 58 and 1958-59; 4 patients declined the offer and all were
subsequently admitted with pneumonia-like illnesses - 2 of them fatal; 7 patients
were transferred to a country hospital after requiring an admission to a local
hospital with winter respiratory illness, and in subsequent years accepted the offer
of such admission in good time. Of those who went to country hospitals all derived
some benefit, although their general condition was such that they were bound to
remain invalids; two, however, died within a week of being returned home from the
country hospital. These deaths may have been associated with renewed contact with
the atmospheric pollution of London but one cannot be sure.
Staff
It is with great regret that it is necessary to record that owing to ill health
Mr. R. Laird has been obliged to give up his attendance at the Chest Clinic. He has
been for twelve years a highly valued member of our visiting staff.
Postgraduate students, many from overseas have again been attached to the
clinic for various periods during 1959 to enable them to study the methods employed
at Edgware.
Publications
Margaret Coltart
Helen Raine
Elizabeth Harrison
Social Work in Tuberculosis
(Chest & Heart Association)
London 1959)
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