Annual report : 1943 / Staffordshire, Wolverhampton and Dudley Joint Committee for Tuberculosis.

  • Staffordshire, Wolverhampton and Dudley Joint Committee for Tuberculosis
Date:
1943
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Credit: Annual report : 1943 / Staffordshire, Wolverhampton and Dudley Joint Committee for Tuberculosis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONDITION ON DISCHARGE. No Material RESULTS OF TREATMENT :— Classification on Admission. Quiescent. Improved. Improvement. Died. T otal. 0 toe Be my fe oF 15 3 3 48 T.B.+ Group 1 .. of 2 5 1 — 8 4 oe Ls 4 18 8 6 36 7” fat a Vee e aa 5 4 12 21 Totals ee 7 33 43 16 21 113 Observation Cases ae 3 Total 115 RESULTS OF RATIONING OF Foop :— Average gain in weight per patient per month for 1942—1.39 lbs. Average gain in weight per patient per month for 1941—.89 lbs. Average gain in weight per patient per month before rationing—2.74 lbs. “There is no doubt that rationing, black-out and war worries, have a deleterious effect on the patient’s ability to put on weight, but the results of treatment when compared with previous years are as yet unaffected. SPECIAL FORMS OF TREATMENT :— Artificial Pneumothorax :— No. of inductions (Of these six were not successful) .% ai 43 Number of Patients admitted with A.P. induced before admission 7 No. of refills given a - x f, de 3 ge oos Number of A.P. cases discharged during 1942 BY ie am 17 Results of Artificial Pneumothorax Treatment :— On admission Sputum. or before A.P. After A.P. Positive .. en - 8 — Negative .. i ron 7 7 No Sputum 5. % 2 10 Gold Injections and Results of Treatment :— Cases started (of these 2 were discontinued for various reasons) .. 6 Injections 4] Sputum. Positive Negative .. No Sputum Before After Gold. Gold. 2 1 1 1 — 1