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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
127, and the total number of visits of this kind made was 265.
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 fourteen. See page 55.