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Title: A narrative of the work done in a year by the Boston Association for the Relief and Control of Tuberculosis
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Boston Association for the Relief and Control of Tuberculosis
Subjects: Boston Association for the Relief and Control of Tuberculosis Tuberculosis
Publisher: Boston : The Association
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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e of life which isnecessary to upbuild the system and regain health. Concrete figures in regard to institutions should be interest-ing evidence as to efficiency. On October 31, the end of previousseasons and of the fiscal year of the Association, 204 patientshad been admitted to the camp. From the middle of Julyto the middle of October, 85 were kept on the rolls. This num-ber of possible patients reduced by the average daily absencesdue to periodic and occasional sickness, bad judgment andfamily comphcations gave the maximum utility to the equip-ment and force except on very stormy days. Omitting themonth of June during which we were assembling the patientsthere has been a daily average attendance of 70^. IncludingJune it was 67 as compared with 46 and 31 in the previousseasons. In 162 days, the total for last year, we have givenover 11,000 days treatment as compared with 7,522 last sum-mer, an increase of about 30 per cent. The cost of maintaining the camp was 58 cents per patient 20
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« per day averaged for the fiist five months. This compareswith 82.7 cents average for the first season, and 63.8 for thesecond. As each month has shown a saving over the previousone it seems probable that this cost can be stOl fm-ther reducedwhen averaged for a year around. The figures given includethe cost of additions to and replacement of the equipment.If these be eliminated the cost for this years regular seasonwas 51 cents per patient per day. Of this 31J cents representsthe cost of the meals. The balance equals the cost of thelocal administration and medical care. The cost has been metby voluntary contributions from 167 people, plus 25 cents aday from 7 patients who were able to pay this for a short time,and small payments by two neighboring cities whose Boards ofHealth sent patients to us. The following social and medical statistics and informationwere furnished by Dr. Townsend and Miss Gallagher. The sexes were nearly equally divided. One-half of all werenative born, 33 were

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