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(10) Cured.—Patients with tuberculosis should not be deleted from the
Dispensary Register as "cured" until in the case of non-pulmonary tuberculosis,
3 years, and in the case of pulmonary tuberculosis, 5 years, have
elapsed without any symptoms of active disease (i.e., arrest has been maintained
for 3 years).
(11) Cases "lost sight of."—Patients who have failed to submit themselves
for examination during two consecutive calendar years notwithstanding all
efforts to trace them. These should be written off the Dispensary Register at
the end of the year. (Patients who are known to have left the district permanently
but who cannot be transferred to another local authority because
their destination is not known, and patients seen onlv in consultation for the
purpose of diagnosis, and others who desire no further assistance under the
tuberculosis scheme for public medical treatment, may be marked off at once.)