[Report 1933] / Medical Officer of Health, Edinburgh City.

  • Edinburgh (Scotland). City Council.
Date:
1933
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    tuberculosis dispensaries. The tuberculosis dispensaries play an important part in the scheme for the treat- ment and repression of tuberculosis. Advice is sought not only by the patients them- selves but by medical practitioners who refer difficult and doubtful cases for diagnosis. The Child Welfare and School Medical departments continue to make full use of this service in the interests of young children, and much good work is done. The following table shows the number of attendances at each of the dispensaries i during the year. New Cases. Edinburgh. Leith. Old Cases. Edinburgh. Leith. Men . 749 77 3,942 7% Women 748 121 3,839 611 Children . 992 284 4,129 957 Totals . 2,489 482 11,930 2,364 Home Visitation—Persons suffering from tuberculosis are visited regularly! at their homes by the medical officers and nurses attached to the dispensaries. In the course of the year 14,388 such domiciliary visits were made, the number m each mont being as follows Insured. Not Insured. Total. January 360 737 1,297 February 561 691 1,252 March . 688 768 1,456 April 519 592 1.111 May ' . 773 752 1,523 June . 639 716 1,355 July • • • 409 572 981 August 235 531 786 September 319 485 804 October 606 793 1,399 November 606 806 1.412 December 469 541 1.010 Totals 6,404 7,984 14,388 The improvement noted last year in the number of attendances at the tuberculosi dispensaries of the patients discharged from hospitals after treatment for the diseas is being maintained. This is an encouraging fact and is a ie\%aid for t e unti efforts of the medical and nursing staff in stressing the importance of atten ance at on or other of the clinics for periodic overhaul. Artificial Sunlight Treatment.-The Ultra-Violet Ray Clinic at the Roy-; Victoria Dispensary was again the scene of great activity during the year, an patients, 282 medical and 44 surgical, received a course of tieatment.