Flying Doctor calling at a village.
Hailing Boar People to come for prophylactic immunizations.
The Ruttonjee Sanatorium and Freni Memorial Convalescent Home
190. These two units are the responsibility of the Ruttonjce Sana- torium Management Board and arc run as one. In the Sanatorium of 226 beds, medical, surgical and orthopaedic work is carried out while the Convalescent Home of 110 beds is for patients who are under drug treatment but sufficiently well not to be in need of special nursing care. Consultant services are supplied by the University Professorial Units of Medicine, Surgery and Orthopaedics. Medical and Senior Nursing staff are provided by the Sisters of the St. Columban Missionary Order.
191. In addition, the medical staff of the Sanatorium maintain the B.C.G. and follow up clinic in the Association's Headquarters situated next door to the hospital, and undertake the X-ray and medical work in connexion with the Tuberculosis Insurance Scheme.
192. The work done at the Ruttonjec Sanatorium and the Freni Memorial Convalescent Home during the year ending 31st March, 1962 was as follows:
TABLE 14
New Admissions
Re-admissions
Discharged
Ruttonjec
Sanatorium
$38
151
504*
Tural Bed Days
77.417
Deathr
Freni Memorial
Convalescent
Home
208+
295
39,121
NIL
* Includes 12 discharged in Children's Convalescem Home Sandy Bay and 40 to other hosphat: 382 were discharged direct to home An Additonal 295 were transferred to the Freni Home.
* This pure DE W Includes the 14% referred to abow.
RUTTONJER SANATORIUM
Orthopaedic Operations
Spine
72
Orbers 11
Thoracic Operation
Resections
Wedge
7
Segmental
21
Lobectomy
*7.3.
Pneumonectomy
*
Miscellaneous including Thoracoplasty
32
ASSOCIATION POLLOW UP CLINIC
Under treatment as outpatients
Annual ebeck of patients under supervision only
Total attendances
45
1.701 1,906 12.904