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5. Efforts should be made to introduce at the
dispensaries a system by which patients would
be seen, if practicable, by individual appointment,
or other means should be adopted to reduce to a
minimum the time during which patients are kept
waiting at the dispensary.
6. More adequate arrangements than at present
obtain should be made for the examination by the
Tuberculosis Officer of the home "contacts" or
newly notified cases, and for the "following up"
of patients for whose failure to continue in attendance
at the dispensary no satisfactory reason has been
ascertained.
7. It is important that the Tuberculosis Officer
should become personally acquainted, as far as
possible, with all medical practitioners practising in
the area served by his dispensary, in order that
the fullest degree of co-operation may be
secured.
8. The local arrangements should be such as will
enable the Tuberculosis Officer to visit the homes
of dispensary patients, in order to become familiar
with the envirbnmental conditions of the patients
in his district and to enable him to supervise adequately
the work of the dispensary nurses.