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which is likely to die at the Sanatorium, and acute cases, i.e.,
those with temperatures over 100° are not sent until the
temperature has come down. But of the 35 patients admitted
last year the disease affected both lungs in 17, and
one lung in an advanced stage (consolidation) in 7 cases.
18 cases had an evening temperature of over 99°. Tubercle
bacilli were found in 21 cases, and were very numerous in 9.
No examination of sputa was made in the other cases. As
patients are only received for one month in the first instance,
there is no objection to sending somewhat advanced or chronic
cases, who, though their lives may not be prolonged very
much, will learn the open-air treatment, and thus lessen the
danger to others on return.
81. The following table recommended by the Local
G-overnment Board, shows the condition in each subsequent
year of the survivors from the cases treated in each year.
The difference between the sum of the numbers dead and
the survivors, and the number discharged, in any year, shows
the cases lost sight of.
Number of patients discharged in each year who were (a)alive, but not well enough to
work; (&) at work, seeking work, or performing their ordinary duties, in January of
each of the undermentioned years:—