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(b) Discussion of future careers of patients and advising re
learning of new trade, studying commercial subjects,
accountancy, etc.
(c) Linking patient up with Education Officer or Ministry of
Labour.
(d) Approaching new patients with a view to interesting
them in some form of occupation, bearing in mind their
individual needs.
It is hoped that with a full-time Therapist, the work in this
field will become more objective, and that the very important
task of preparing the patient after Sanatorium treatment to take
his place as a useful citizen in the outside world and fit him for
productive work to suit his physical condition, will be the normal
work of the department.
Rehabilitation.
In view of the large number of non-tuberculous pulmonary
cases which are seen at the Clinic, the problem of physiotherapy
and chest remedial exercises is of increasing importance. These
cases suffer from chronic bronchitis, emphysema and bronchiectasis,
and a large number which are seen at this Clinic now attend the
chest remedial exercise class with very satisfactory results.
Priority Re-Housing for Tuberculous Patients.
In view of the importance of the preventive aspect of the
work and taking particularly into account the very real need for
patients who have been discharged from a sanatorium to follow the
sanatorium regime as advised by us, in their own homes, it is
imperative that priority in re-housing should be given to tuberculous
subjects if this disease is to undergo any measure of control. Our
work is virtually futile unless this matter is treated as of almost
war emergency significance.
In conclusion, in reviewing 20 years of activity at the Chest
Clinic, the progress from the dispensary at Durban House with its
primitive facilities to the opening in 1935 by the then Minister of
Health, the Rt. Hon. Mr. Arthur Greenwood, of the Chest Clinic
which afforded so many modern facilities, clinical, radiological,
surgical, administrative and social, gives no little cause for satisfaction.
And yet we are aware of deficiencies which still require