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(a) Patients who have received an adequate course of
sanatorium treatment, and whose medical condition
is such that, with the grant of extra nourishment,
they may be expected to maintain or recover full
working capacity; and
(b) Patients in whose cases ultimate arrest of the disease
may reasonably be anticipated, and who are waiting
for admission to a sanatorium.
After certification by the Tuberculosis Officer, enquiries
are made into the financial circumstances of the applicant,
and, when this information has been obtained, the application
is reviewed by the Care Committee. On the report
of the Care Committee the Medical Officer of Health issues
the necessary vouchers. A report is then submitted to the
next meeting of the Health Committee for the approval of
the action of the Medical Officer of Health in issuing to the
cases concerned. Only those articles which have been
approved by the Ministry are supplied to these cases. The
approved articles are as follows:—butter, eggs, milk, oatmeal,
Virol and milk, and Emprote. Careful enquiry is
made from time to time to ensure that the articles of food
supplied are consumed by the patients for whom they are
ordered.
(1) Dental Treatment. Dental work is carried out at the
School Clinic in Brewer Street, patients being referred there
from the Dispensary. During the year 28 patients received
treatment, the total number of attendances being 57. Patients
receive dental treatment free, but if dentures are required
patients are assessed according to their means, each case
being treated on its merits. Dentures were supplied in nine
cases at a cost of £38 3s., and during the year the income
received under this head was £19 14s. 6d.