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Discharged Tuberculous Sailors and Soldiers.
Arrangements were made at the commencement of 1919 with
the Ministry of Pensions for the home visiting and after-care of
discharged sailors and soldiers suffering from tuberculosis.
The Tuberculosis Health Visitors visit the homes of these
patients and advise them of any alterations which they deem
desirable in the sleeping accommodation, sanitary conditions,
cleanliness, etc., and also encourage them to carry out the instructions
of the doctor in attendance, or the Tuberculosis Officer,
as to their mode of living.
During the year the number of discharged men visited was
154, and the total number of visits of this kind made was 607.
The proportion of the number of visits to such cases to the total
number of visits made by Tuberculosis Health Visitors to tuberculous
cases in the Borough was as one to seven. See page 60.
TUBERCULOSIS SCHEME.
The Ministry of Health request precise information as to the
following details of the Tuberculosis Dispensary service:—
(i.) A list of dispensaries, branch dispensaries, &c., and a list of
Tuberculosis Officers and Assistant Tuberculosis Officers employed
in Dispensary work.
(ii.) In Administrative Counties, precise particulars of arrangements for
co-operation with Sanitary Authorities and their officers.
(iii.) The nature and extent of co-operation with general and special
hospitals, school clinics and other institutions.
(iv.) Any special arrangements made to secure the co-operation of
medical practitioners, and the working of the arrangements set
out in Memorandum No. 286, in regard to the co-ordination
of the work of Tuberculosis Officers and Insurance Practitioners.
(v.) The arrangements for following up patients in cases in which the
diagnosis is doubtful.
(vi.) The arrangements for securing the examination and systematic
supervision of " home contacts."
(vii.) Information as to special methods of diagnosis and treatment in
use, and the number of persons to whom these special methods
have been applied.