The inevitable complement : the care and after-care of consumptives / by Harold Vallow.

  • Vallow, Harold.
Date:
1915
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Credit: The inevitable complement : the care and after-care of consumptives / by Harold Vallow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    civilized community whose duty it is to remove these various obstacles. The obstacles are not in- superable—they only need removal—all cases of preventable relapse should be dealt with. I make an appeal to all members of the com- munity to insist that the Government shall provide for the people what they have promised under the Sanatorium provisions of the National Insurance Act, the proper treatment for consumptives. If this is done, this book will not have been written in vain. I have proved (as has been proved by very many other observers) that great benefit can be obtained by the early treatment of hopeful cases by suitable means, but even some of the most hopeful of the cases retrogress after a time. Of fifty early cases treated, the results given in terms of ‘‘ Working Capacity,’’ nearly two years after treatment, were :— Working Before treatment, Immediately Present capacity about June, 1912 after treatment time Full sas, use per COME. cs... G2 Percent. &. 76 per Cent; Partial |. ..2°940 is AOR: Uy i reds re None ies eee ‘ ee kno - BS ae 17 So that of the very hopeful, 6 per cent. retro- gressed, for while 82 per cent. were able to do full work immediately after treatment, 76 per cent. are still able, after the lapse of nearly two years, to do so. Had efficient after-care been obtainable, | ‘believe the proportion of retrogressions would have