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Sanatorium Treatment for Consumption.
The Lambeth Council, during 1909, again approved of the
principle of the Metropolitan Asylums Board using the vacant
Isolation Hospitals for the reception of consumptive patients
for Sanatorium treatment, if practicable, and addressed a
letter to the Local Government Board, urging them to allow
the Asylums Board so to act. The need for sanatoria lor
consumptives is admitted, as are also the good effects that
would accrue from the taking away, at least temporarily,
from crowded localities of houses of all consumptive patients
who are a danger to others living in the same houses or
rooms.
The educational value of such sanatoria must not be forgotten,
even in the cases of patients who remain under treatmen
there a few months only. When they return to their
homes, they continue to carry out the rules under which
they have lived whilst in the Sanatoria.
Tuberculosis Exhibition, London, 1909.
During June, 1909, the National Association for the
Prevention of Consumption and other forms of Tuberculosis
organised an Exhibition and Conference at the Art Gallery,
Whitechapel, and the Chairman of the Public Health Committee
and the Medical Officer of Health were appointed
delegates to attend on behalf of the Council.
Educationally these Exhibitions effect much good, in bringing
to the knowledge of the people the nature and dangers
of the disease, and the simple methods for its prevention.
GLANDERS.
On January 1st, 1908, the London (Notification ot
Glanders) Order, 1907, came into force throughout the
Administrative County of London and the City of London.
By the terms of the Order, information of outbreaks of
animal Glanders is to be communicated to the Medical