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domiciliary treatment), and patients or observation cases in residential
institutions, and " contacts." (This is distinguished from
the Notification Register kept by the Medical Officer of Health.)
(10) Cured.—Patients with tuberculosis are not deleted from
the Dispensary Register as " cured " until in the case of nonpulmonary
tuberculosis, 3 years, and in the case of pulmonary
tuberculosis, 5 years, have elapsed without any symptoms of active
disease (i.e., arrest has been maintained for 3 years).
(11) Cases " lost sight of."—Patients who have failed to submit
themselves for examination during two consecutive calendar
years notwithstanding all efforts to trace them. These are written
off the Dispensary Register at the end of the year. (Patients who
afe known to have left the district permanently but who cannot be
transferred to another local authority because their destination is
not known, and patients seen only in consultation for the purpose
of diagnosis, and others who desire no further assistance under the
tuberculosis scheme for public medical treatment, are marked off
at once.)