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Supply of Extra Nourishment during 1932.
Sixty-five Dispensary patients received extra diet (Borough
Scheme).
Supply of Sputum Pocket Flasks and Outfits for Sputum Examination.
About 150 pocket sputum flasks were supplied to patients
during the year. Patients of course obtain pocket flasks from other
sources, for example residential institutions and private sources.
1,395 outfits were supplied in connection with sputum examinations.
Institutional (Residential) Treatment of Camberwell
Patients in 1932 through the London County Council.
1. Adult Males:—
Number of applicants for residential treatment 204
Number who received residential treatment 183
Number who did not receive residential treatment:—
Not accepted 10
Failed to enter 5
Awaiting residential treatment at December
31st, 1932 6
Classification of Adult Males who received Residential Treatment.
Pulmonary cases in which tubercle bacilli had not been
found in the sputum 27
Pulmonary cases in which tubercle bacilli had been
found in the sputum 131
Early pulmonary tuberculosis 30
Moderately advanced pulmonary tuberculosis 87
Advanced pulmonary tuberculosis 14
Surgical tuberculosis 11
Diagnosis of tuberculosis 12
Not classified 2
2. Adult Females:—
Number of applicants for residential treatment 125
Number who received residential treatment 107
Number who did not receive residential treatment:—
Not accepted 5
Failed to enter 9
Awaiting residential treatment at December
31st, 1932 4
Classification of Adult Females who Received Residential Treatment.
Pulmonary cases in which tubercle bacilli had not been
found in the sputum 24