Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1929.

  • Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Date:
1929
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Credit: Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1929. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reason for Refer: A twenty-two year old Canadian girl with incipient pulmonary tuberculosis was referred from the Out-Door Depart¬ ment for sanatorium care. Social: Patient was living in a lodging house. She had no savings, but position would be held for her. As she had been in America only four years and as she had taken out only her first naturalization papers she could go to no State Sanatoria except that at Tewks¬ bury which would make her subject to deportation as a State charge. Action Taken: Money raised through Boston Provident Association to provide a period of rest and building-up in country. Later she was admitted to the Sharon Sanatorium, partly at the expense of her employer. Patient returned about nine months later first to a part- time job and then to a full-time job. She is apparently in very good condition. Reason for Refer: An eighteen-year-old boy with pulmonary tubercu¬ losis on the medical ward was referred for sanatorium care. Social: Patient’s mother was a widow whose husband had died of tuber¬ culosis in 1927. A sister of nineteen was working under poor con¬ ditions in a bakery. Another sister of fourteen was nervous and undernourished. A brother of seven was also nervous and under¬ weight. Action Taken: Arrangements made for patient to go to sanatorium from hospital. Family were persuaded to have physical examinations. As a result, youngest boy was sent to preventorium maintained by Bos¬ ton Tuberculosis Association at Mattapan. The fourteen-year-old girl was found to be a potential heart case and a vacation at Far¬ rington Memorial, Lexington, was arranged in the summer and on her return she was referred to the Cardiac Clinic to be observed from time to time for any further symptoms of cardiac trouble. A factory inspector from State Board of Labor and Industry was asked to visit bakery where nineteen-year-old sister worked. As a result of his visit conditions were improved. Family will be followed through Cardiac Clinic. Reason for Refer: A twenty-year-old colored girl was brought into hos¬ pital suffering from iodine poisoning, question of suicide. Patient was referred for aftercare. Social: Patient a stranger in city with no resources. However, a cheer¬ ful individual with no care for the morrow. She had been working at various places through the United States since she was thirteen years old. Parents were dead. She came to Boston and on leaving station she left suitcase and started out to find a job. She said she drank the iodine mistaking it for liquid cascara which she had in a small bag with the iodine. She was picked up on street and rushed to hospital. Action Taken: A psychiatric examination was made. This examination showed no outstanding mental abnormality. It was thought that pa-
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