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"HARTS" SANATORIUM.
Dr. Cheater reports as follows:—
Patients discharged, 117 (males 77, females 40). Of these
92(men 72, women 20), were insured persons.
Deaths 13 (included in 117 above).
Average duration of treatment, 17 weeks 4 days.
Number of patient days, 20,257.
Number of beds available at the end of year, 56.
Average number of beds occupied, 55.77.
The immediate results of treatment are as follows:—
43 cases were discharged as " Quiescent."
52 cases were discharged as "Improved," and
9 cases were discharged as "Not Improved."
Of the 117 patients discharged, 27 had had one previous
course of sanatorium treatment, and 2 had been in twice before.
As regards the 9 who were discharged as "Not improved," it
may be stated that they were discharged at their own requests,
as it is the policy to keep patients under treatment until they
have made some definite progress and have a fair chance of
maintaining that progress on returning home. This is sometimes
difficult in the case where a man is anxious to return to work
to keep his job, or of a married woman having a young child to
look after at home. However, patients are strongly advised to
continue, as far as they are able, the mode of living they have
been taught whilst in the sanatorium, and there is no doubt that
the educational value of sanatorium routine is of great help when
consumptives again resume ordinary life.
Artificial Pneumothorax.
Treatment by Artificial Pneumothorax continues its valuable
place in cases of unilateral disease. The number of refilling
operations performed in 1930 was 170. Several of the patients
who are having this treatment are in active work, obtaining a