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20 Hospital Administration.
At the dispensary medicines are dispensed, malt and oil
distributed and tuberculin given according to the needs of the
patient.
For 1917 :—
The number of attendances of Insured persons 456
,, „ „ „ Non-Insured „ 171 852
„ ,, ,, Dependants 225
Visits to the homes of all classes 163
Experience over 5 years of uninterrupted work goes to show
that cases with Tubercle Bacilli in the sputum who have had
considerable dosage of Tuberculin live longer than those who have
not been so treated. Also that the Dispensary and the Hospital
are the two most useful means of dealing with early and late cases
respectively, but that the home conditions of the majority of the
working classes are adverse to recovery, as shown by the frequent
relapses; and that many Sanatorium cases find their way eventually
into Hospitals for advanced cases. I am convinced that for every
able bodied consumptive, state controlled, state founded and state
aid farm-colonies should be established, and that home life and
freedom on the colonies should be so arranged as to be agreeable
to all patients concerned and their earning capacity developed to
the full.