The Massachusetts Tuberculosis Dispensaries

Risk factors for non-cure among new sputum smear positive tuberculosis patients treated in tuberculosis dispensaries in Yunnan, China

BACKGROUND Yunnan province in China has a high tuberculosis (TB) burden. Cure rates in general are high, but they were below the target of 85% in 26 out of 129 counties in 2005. In these 26 counties we assessed which patient-related and treatment-related factors were associated with non-cure. METHODS We conducted a prospective cohort study. Smear positive pulmonary TB patients treated at the ...

Our Hospitals and Dispensaries

Sir,?So many Commissions have in recent years been appointed in India to make enquiries into various subjects and branches of service, that the man in the street may perhaps be permitted to ask why a mixed commission composed of official and non-official elements is not appointed to make a sifting inquiry into the internal conditions of our hospitals and dispensaries, which are now subjected to...

Notes on the history of dental dispensaries.

MEDICAL DISPENSARIES for the poor date from 1697 when the Royal College of Physicians opened one in their premises in Warwick Lane, and others followed until in 1802 they served more than 50,000 poor patients and fifty square miles round the City. Cases of toothache must have been treated in them, but the remedy was probably always extraction of the tooth. In the mid-nineteenth century, a few d...

Dispensaries: the Wild West of Vancouver.

Cataract Operations in Outlying Dispensaries

rous attack, in your July issue, on my article headed " Sixtyone eye operations in one day" and which yoti were kind enough to publish about 2 years ago. The references he quotes to belittle my results, viz., (a) 1903 statistics, a period when conjunctival asepsis was almost in its infancy and operative technique was not so widely possessed, (b) Norris and Olivers, Vol. Ill, a system on ophthal...