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adequately dealt with but the construction of an additional elinic, specifically designed and equipped for the purpose and expected to open in late 1950, should to some extent relieve the present situation.
The report of the activities of the existing clinic at Harcourt Health Centre follows herewith, together with details of branch clinics operated at various places in the Colony remote from the principal centre but operated by the staff of the parent clinic:
(1) Total attendances during 1949.
Harcourt Tuberculosis Clinic Subsidiary Clinics
(2) Number of New Patients,
Harcourt Tuberculosis Clinic
47,393 1,879
Total:
49,272
69
The total attendances recorded during the year show a fairly substantial reduction over the figure for 1948 for two
reasons:
(a) The administration of liver and vitamin injections
was discontinued early in the year.
(b) The diagnostic scheme was streamlined to curtail the number of visits made by each patient before disposal.
On the other hand the number of first visits has risen by 36 percent, the principal increase being among voluntary attenders, while the percentage of these found to be suffering from active disease has fallen from 23 to 18, due no doubt to the publicity received by the clinic during the year and the increasing use made of it by the public. The details of diagnoses are as follows:
(1) Number found free of Tuberculosis
Harcourt Tuberculosis Clinic
Aberdeen
18,135
Aberdeen Clinic
Stanley Clinic
Taipo Clinic
Un Long Clinic
153
12
182
124
Stanley
Taipo
Un Long
Total:
18,606
(3) Number of Return Visits.
Harcourt Tuberculosis Clinic
(2) Number suffering from Tuberculosis
29,258
Aberdeen Clinic
Stanley Clinic
607
25
Taipo Clinic
510
Un Long Clinic
266
Total:
30,666
(4) Origin of New Patients.
Voluntary Attenders
13,322
Referred by Private Practitioners...
182
Referred by Hospitals
273
Contacts
386
Inactive or healed
[ Harcourt
Suspicious
Aberdeen
Stanley
Total:
1,092
Harcourt
3,181
Aberdeen
36
Active
Taipo
111
Un Long
64
Total:
3,394
8,808
117
11
71
60
Total:
9,057
890
1,083 1
Survey
3,372
Total:
18,135
Diagnosia Incomplete
(a) Attended clinic but did not
attend for X-ray
3,334
F
Contacts examined through the clinic but who were not required to attend
(6) Examination incomplete at
31st December, 1949
339
Total:
3,381
Total:
4,173