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culosis Conference, the Secretary attending full-time and
individual members taking advantage of the special sessions concerned
with tuberculosis care work. These opportunities of
seeing and hearing other aspects of tuberculosis work, of comparing
our own methods with those of other similar bodies and
broadening our outlook on the work generally, have been most
useful.
"The following figures may give some indication of the
main items of material help given in direct grants from our funds,
a great deal of additional assistance being obtained by reference
of cases to the appropriate statutory authority, or through application
to some charitable organisation more suited to the
individual case."
Assistance given No. of Patients Cost
£
Milk 10 53
Grocery 36 475
Fuel 47 77
Fares to visit patients 17 147
Clothing, bedding, etc. 33 281
Miscellaneous grant 22 57
B.C.G. Vaccination of Schoolchildren.
Vaccination of schoolchildren in the year preceding their
fourteenth birthday continued. The scheme was fully described
in the report of the School Medical Officer for 1954. During 1955
acceptances were received from 857 children out of 1,654 who
were eligible, i.e., 51%.
Details are as follows :—
Heaf positive 109
Heaf negative 740
Absent from test 8
857
Vaccinated, 728 ; absent or not done, 12.
Nursing arrangements at Chest Clinic.
Three Tuberculosis Visitors provided by the County Council
are employed at the Chest Clinic. They combine nursing duties
for the Regional Hospital Board at the Chest Clinic and domiciliary
visits to patients for the County Council.
Contact Examinations.
First examinations of contacts in 1955 were 94 examinations
to 73 total notifications. In 1954 there were 140 examinations to
67 notifications.