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infection either at home, or while travelling, or at their workAny
necessary sputum pots, for home or portable use, are supplied
to the patients attending at the dispensary. The patients undergoing
domiciliary treatment, under private practitioners will obtain
their sputum pots also at this Instutition, upon requisition signed
by the attending medical practitioner.
2. The dispensary is also a centre for the bacteriological
examination of sputum, in the case of all persons suspected to be
suffering from the disease, as well as when necessary the sputum
of all conusmptive patients under treatment.
3. All clinical records of patients treated at the dispensary
are kept there, and the clinical reports of all cases undergoing
domiciliary treatment, by medical practitioners, are ultimately
forwarded there. On a patient leaving a sanatorium the continuous
record, made during his stay at that Institution, is forwarded to
the dispensary. The same is the case with records of cases treated
in the hospital, even though it has terminated fatally. All bacteriological
records are also kept at the dispensary.
All these records are available to the Medical Officer of Health
if he needs them for any statistical or other report.
Nurses.—When the nurse attached to the Tuberculosis Dispensary
are not engaged in assisting the Tuberculosis Officer, they
are available for visits to patient's homes under the immediate
supervision of the Medical Officer of Health.
2. The medical practitioner and domiciliary treatment.
Under the medical practitioner will be placed for domiciliary
treatment, those cases of tuberculosis which have been recommended
by the Tuberculosis Officer for this treatment. As indicated in
the above account of the dispensary, these cases will originally be
examined by the Tuberculosis Officer, who will report, through the