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Tuberculosis Dispensaries.
is a reasonable probability that extra nourishment will increase
the chances of recovery, or will enable the patient to
remain at work, or to return to work at an early date. During
the year under consideration 123 patients have been granted
extra nourishment under these arrangements at a cost of
£129 19s. 10d., and the recipients have derived considerable
benefit from it.
Open Air Shelters.—The seven shelters owned by the
Borough Council have been in almost constant use during the
year.
The two following Tables show the original classification
of all the patients suffering from Tuberculosis who have attended
the Dispensaries since they were opened in 1913, and the
condition at the end of 1929 as far as it is known. Table
XXX. refers to cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Table
XXXI. to cases of Non-pulmonary Tuberculosis.