[Report 1922] / Medical Officer of Health, Fife County Council.

  • Fife (Scotland). County Council.
Date:
1922
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Credit: [Report 1922] / Medical Officer of Health, Fife County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    commonly milk, eggs, butter, meat and oatmeal: the average number of patients in receipt of additional nourishment is 9. Surgical dressings are, where necessary, granted. On the 25th January, 1922, a circular letter was addressed to all medical practitioners informing them that the County Tuber- culosis Authority had decided to defray the cost of drugs necess- arily and reasonably prescribed in the treatment of tuberculosis of patients whose names appear on the register of the County Tuberculosis Officer as having been notified in terms of the Tuber- culosis Regulations 1914. Books of prescription forms were furnished on application. Panel chemists were informed of the arrangements and requested to submit their accounts monthly. The cost of the provision of drugs for the eleven months ending 31st December 1922 was £82 17s lljd: the number of patients prescribed for was 136, the average amount per patient being 12s 2Jd. The maximum amount incurred on one patient was £6 2s 6Jd for eight months. In the past the advanced stage at which certain patients came to knowledge has been commented on. There has been a distinct improvement in this respect since the work started although the field for further advance is large. Early diagnosis and treat- ment ensures good results and low death-rate ; the later the recognition and treatment, the more unfavourable is the outlook and in advanced cases the results are invariably unfavourable and the mortality high. The following brief outline by Dr McGillivray, Executive Tuberculosis Officer, who has done excellent work during the year is submitted :— Report of Executive Tuberculosis Officer for 1922. During the present year the work has been carried out on the same lines as before, but in addition an effort has been made to see as far as possible old cases on the tuberculosis register who had not been reported on for more than a year. The health visitors in the various districts gave valuable help in this work as they were supplied with lists of old patients whom I wished to see and they were able to trace and report on most of them, thus saving a great