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This arrangement ensures that all "contacts" of school age are examined.
It is still found impossible, however, to persuade all adult "contacts" to
be examined, particularly male "contacts."
Insured Patients.
Table II shows an analysis of the Insured patients.

Ministry of Pensions.
Table III shows the number of War Pensioners examined at the three
Dispensaries during the year.

A fairly large number of Pensioners are under observation following
periods of institutional treatment for tuberculosis, but as time goes on the
number of reports to the Ministry become less.
Very few patients have been recommended for industrial training from the
Dispensaries, largely on account of the great difficulty— in fact, the impossibility
—of obtaining work on the expiration of the training period.
Until employment in this country becomes satisfactory, it will remain impossible
for men whose working capacity is impaired to obtain work in the
open market.