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(10) Cured.—Patients with tuberculosis should not be deleted from the Dispensary
Register as "cured" until in the case of non-pulmonary tuberculosis, 3 years, and in
the case of pulmonary tuberculosis, 5 years, have elapsed without any symptoms of
active disease (i.e., arrest has been maintained for 3 years).
(11) Cases "lost sight of."—Patients who have failed to submit themselves for
examination during two consecutive calendar years notwithstanding all efforts to
trace them. These should be written off the Dispensary Register at the end of the
year. (Patients who are known to have left the district permanently but who cannot
be transferred to another local authority because their destination is not known, and
patients seen only in consultation for the purpose of diagnosis, and others who desire
no further assistance under the tuberculosis scheme for public medical treatment
may be marked off at once.)
Table E—(See inset).
Note.—Group I.: Cases with slight constitutional disturbance (if any).
Group III.: Cases with profound systemic disturbance or constitutional
deterioration, and with little or no prospect of
recovery.
Group II.: All cases which cannot be placed in Groups I. and III.
Table F—(See inset).
The work of the Tuberculosis Dispensary is further dealt with by Dr. Leitch,
the Tuberculosis Officer, and Miss M. Sutton-Sharpe, in the two following reports:—
Royal Chest Hospital.
Shoreditch Tuberculosis Dispensary.
Statistical Report for year 1930.
To The Medical Officer of Health.
The total attendances paid to the Dispensary and the total number of new cases
examined are somewhat less than in 1929 owing to a smaller number of old cases
on the Tuberculosis Register being seen than in the previous year. Except for this,
the figures would ha ve been more or less identical.