[Report 1926] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council.

  • Cambridgeshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1926
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Credit: [Report 1926] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    medical practitioners were given in the survey report for 1925, and need not be repeated here. As aids to diagnosis, bacteriological and X-ray work are carried out by the Dispensary staff. Specimens of sputum examined baeteriologically during the year numbered 60, the tubercle bacillus being found in 10 specimens. Increasing use has again been made of X-rays diagnosis, 1,444 such examinations having been made in 1926. Of these, 834 were screening only, while a film was developed in 610 cases. Medical practitioners show an increasing tendency to send then patients for X-ray examination before notification, and the Council have included a sum in their estimates for an improved type of apparatus. The scheme of dental treatment for tuberculous persons, which was commenced in 1924, developed during 1926, requiring more frequent attendances by the County School Dentist at the Dispensary on Saturday mornings for this purpose. Since the end of the year therefore it was resolved to expand the scheme so as to include per- sons undergoing treatment for tuberculosis who are either insured and not qualified for dental benefit or not in a position to receive dental treatment from their Society, or not insured and unable to provide it for themselves. Such persons are to pay as far as they are able, but not exceeding the scale agreed upon for members of Approved Societies. During 1926, in addition to assistance in the purchase of artificial dentures, aid was also given in certain cases for the provision of splints and other surgical appliances. Open-air shelters are lent by the Council for occupation both !by adults and children, including those for whom it is judged that an open-air existence may suffice without admission to a sanatorium, cases awaiting admission and