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increase in weight. Most shewed very great improvement,
and were able to resume their ordinary duties. Several
were kept for a time at the Sanatorium after ceasing to
be chargeable to the Council. Some of these earned their
keep by performing light duties.
80a. Nature of Cases. It would be a mistake to suppose
that the majority of the cases sent were very early
ones; the contrary is nearer the truth. No case of course
is sent 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 oome down. But, of the 40
patients admitted last year, the disease affected both lungs
in 22, and one lung in an advanced stage (consolidation) in
4 cases. Tubercle bacilli were found in 29 cases. As
patients are only received for one month in the first instance
there is advantage in 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
Government 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 (rt)
alive, but not well enough to work; (b) at work, seeking
work, or performing their ordinary duties, in January of
each of the undermentioned years:—