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Hospital Administration.
the injection of Tuberculin, and for this reason Saturday is the
best day to give it as a rule. The patients are provided with a
thermometer and taught how to use it under the tongue and not in
the axilla, and they are given cards on which to record their temperature.
The temperature should also be taken mid-day, but this
is not always practicable.
A register is kept at the Dispensary of all patients attending,
and if the treatment is to be continued a proper record sheet is
made out for each, with clinical and temperature charts attached.
In connection with the Dispensary there is a bacteriological
laboratory where sputum can be stained and examined, urine
tested, &c.
In the grounds of the Isolation Hospital a permanent Dispensary
building will be built, with the approach to it leading from a
thoroughfare.
A Dispensary, containing waiting room, consulting room,
dressing rooms and lavatories, should not cost more than £200, and
its equipment not more than another £50, since much of what is in
the temporary premises can be used again.

Since the Dispensary opened in Sept., 1911, 219 cases have
come up for diagnosis or treatment.
For 1913 only, the above and following Tables give a
summary of the patients who have undergone a course of treatment at
the Dispensary during 1913, and show the proportion in terms