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Tuberculosis Dispensaries,
The following tables, showing an analysis of the patients during the year,
are somewhat different from those of previous years, due to the requirements
of the Ministry of Health.
One great difficulty still remains, which is the provision of suitable work
for the consumptive on his return from Sanatorium. Many patients are sent
home with the report "Fit for light work," but with the present difficulty of
obtaining work for the able-bodied, it has proved practically impossible to
obtain work for patients such as these, whose earning capacity is impaired on
account of disability.
There is also a lack of suitable accommodation for the advanced infective
patients living in unsuitable surroundings and who, in these overcrowded conditions,
are liable to be a dangerous source of infection to others, particularly
to young children.
It has been necessary to send many of the above cases into the Poor Law
Hospitals where they can obtain proper nursing, which is usually impossible
at home, and also where they are placed in surroundings which render them
no longer a source of danger to others.
The table referring to War Pensions cases shows that the new cases total
9 only for the three Dispensaries. This figure is likely to be less in the coming
year. We have found the United Services Home at Bournemouth—The
Douglas Home—of help for chronic cases requiring convalescent treatment.
During the year no War Pensioner has been sent for Industrial Training
Courses as in previous years because it has proved impossible to obtain work
for them at the termination of their course of training.
New cases. Cases in attendance
during the year.
Stepney Dispensary 2 44
Whitechapel Dispensary 7 43
St. George-in-the-East Dispensary 0 46
9 133
The following are the tables showing an analysis of the work which have
been referred to,