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DEATHS FROM PHTHISIS AND OTHER TUBERCULAR
DISEASES.
The deaths from Phthisis number 116, and from other Tubercular
diseases 58. The phthisical deatH rate (757 per million) is the lowest
recorded.
During the year cases have been notified by the officers of the
Poor Law authority. Such cases as are not receiving institutional
indoor treatment, are kept under observation, being systematically
visited by the Lady Health Visitors. Sputum bottles are supplied
to suitable cases, disinfection is carried out where indicated, and
appropriate instructions are issued as occasion suggests.
Institutional treatment has so far found no place among the
measures adopted by the Council for the prevention of Tubercular
Phthisis.
The tuberculosis dispensary, the open-air sanatorium, and the
hospital for advanced and hopeless cases have each a place increasingly
recognised as of importance in the comliat with this disease
The dispensary aims, first at the early recognition of cases at a time
when the brightest prospects of permanently arresting the disease are
offered by the adoption of a suitable regime in the life and habits of
the patient.
The open-air sanatorium is not merely, nor even chiefly, a method
of treatment; it is a school where persons suffering from tuberculosis
are trained in those habits which it is essential should be adopted and
practised through life in the interests alike of the sufferer and of the
people with whom he lives or works in intimate association.