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(11) Number of other visits by Tuberculosis Officers
to Homes 483
(12) Number of visits by Nurses or Health Visitors
to Homes for Dispensary purposes 5,023
(13) Number of—
(а) Specimens of sputum, etc., examined 960
(b) X-ray examinations made in connection
with Dispensary work 235
(14) Number of Insured Persons on Dispensary
Register on the 31st December 385
(15) Number of Insured Persons under Domiciliary
Treatment on the 31st December 263
(16) Number of reports received during the year in
respect of Insured Persons—
(а) Form G.P. 17 13
(b) Form G.P. 36 337
Contacts. Contacts are those persons who are examined
because they have recently been, or still are, living in contact
with a Dispensary patient or other notified case, and who
are examined as a direct consequence of action taken by the
Dispensary. The definition is the official one of the Ministry
of Health. Of necessity it limits the numbers who would be
regarded by the medical profession as contacts. All other
persons who are contacts in the medical and popular sense
are classified as new cases. The number of "contacts"
examined this year was 384, a gratifying improvement compared
with 1927, when only 288 were seen.