Origin of New patients:
Attending Voluntarily
Contact
A10
Referred by
Government
Servants
Private Practitioners
Hospitals...
Routine
+
Voluntary attenders
។ ។
530
と
1,472
483
71
28,459
1,801
182. It is of interest to note that 2,980 of the cases of tuber- culosis who attended had minimal disease in an active easily treatable state. Considerably less than one quarter of this number were able to secure admission to hospital.
Bacteriological Eraminations.
183. Examinations are carried out on behalf of the tuber- culosis clinics by the Government Pathological Institute. Details are as follows:
Survey
+++
1,894
Non-Government School Teachers
Conditions of new patients on first attendance.
Materials tested.
128
Spotum
(1) Examination not completed:
Gastric content
(a) Attended but did not wait to
be examined
Pleural Fluid
KONTAK
--.
4,681
Blood for Kahn Tests
Positiva
Negative
Tolal
2,00a
10,420
13,389
11
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10L
24
24
10
22
(b) Examination incomplete
at 31/12/51
1,637
I
(2) Examined and found non-tubercular
(3) Examined and found to be suffering
from tuberculosis:
Active Tuberculosis
***
6,318
16,984
7,286
Quiescent Tuberculosis...
Arrested Tuberculosis
***
2,968
1,282
11,536
Total attended for the first time
34,838
Radiological Examinations.
184. Radiological examinations are carried out on behalf of the clinics by the Radiological Department, at Queen Mary Hos- pital in the case of Harcourt Clinic, and in the same building in the case of Kowloon Tuberculosis Clinic. First examinations are normally done on 35 mm. film and positive cases confirmed on full size picture-normally papers. Clear films are used most sparingly.
Out-patient Treatment.
185. The following treatment was carried out on out-patients at the Clinica:
100
101
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