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Hospital Administration. 19
The balance consists of patients sent home after a course of
treatment, for the most part improved, and those who have been
discharged at their own request. In several cases those discharged
are following on with the dispensary treatment.
Of the 64 in-patients, 55 were insured workers and 12 were
residents in the district.
To public authorities who propose building blocks for advanced
cases of pulmonary tuberculosis I would suggest that the ward
system is preferable to the cubicle system. The drawbacks to
the latter are increased work for the nursing staff, heating difficulties,
awkward lavatory arrangements, and more or less solitude for
the patient. In the long ward there is the open fire, proper
lavatory accommodation at the end of the ward, more company,
and a side ward available for an extreme case.
TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARY (ESTABLISHED 1911).
The new dispensary was opened in the summer of 1915. It is
now opened twice weekly for sessions of two hours for the treatment
of ambulatory cases of pulmonary tuberculosis. The register shows
818 names of persons who have attended since the old dispensary
first opened in 1911. During this year 263 new cases have presented
themselves for diagnosis, or an opinion, but many of these were
found not to be tuberculous. 50 recruits were sent by the
R.A.M.C.
Of the 263 cases 113 received dispensary treatment with the
results shewn below.
The present patients may be roughly sub-divided as follows:—
Adults Only.
jPit for ordinary work 27
Fit for light work 237
Unfit for light work 11
Died during the year 6
Pretubercular Children attended during
the year, mostly school children 52