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Hospital Administration.
Those patients labelled improved, are nearly all cases able to
go about their daily work, and in a good proportion of these the
disease has been wholly or partially arrested. "Cure" is too
optimistic a term to use in connection with this disease, and
practically only occurs after lesions so slight as to warrant no
obligation on the part of the patient to seek medical advice
and treatment.
A form of Tuberculin called Bacillary Emulsion has been
consistently used in suitable cases, and in many cases has proved
a useful adjunct to the general treatment.
Given cautiously no untoward results occur, and in the
thousands of injections given at this Dispensary, there has never
been a skin abscess.
Malt and Oil is given to most of the cases, and palliative,
expectorant and tonic medicines—and other treatment where
found necessary.
In Patients:
Eighty-nine patients were admitted to our ward in 1914, or
12 more than the previous year.
Of these 89 cases, 79 were insured workers; some 15 improved
sufficiently to be sent on to a Sanatorium; 16 died in the hospital,
and 11 died after returning home; the wish being expressed in
several cases that they might die at home, and no objection was
raised seeing that the patients had been trained in the use of
sputum cups and the destruction of their sputum.
An analysis of the 89 cases shows:
No change in 14 cases
Improvement in 40 cases.
Worse in 8 cases.
Death in 27 cases.