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Health of the district concerned was at once communicated with.
A visit was paid by one of the London County Council
Inspectors to the disinfecting station, but beyond this no further
communication has been received in the way of providing a shelter
for persons who have been in contact with cases of small-pox.
My reasons against this have already been given at length, and
nothing has occurred to cause a change of view.; but if the County
Council are convinced of the necessity of a shelter, no one could blame
them for taking Steps to provide one for the whole of London. It
would Serve for ordinary occasions, and in times of epidemic it
would be no more certain to break down than many of the shelters
already provided.
Tuberculosis.
The tuberculosis administration in the Borough is centred in
the dispensary in Brunswick Square, which, although helped to the
extent of a subsidy of £225 from the Borough Council, was managed
by a Committee on which the Council is represented.
There is also a day sanatorium for children at 6, Grove Hill
Road.
The Staff at the middle of 1920 consisted of a tuberculosis
officer, an assistant tuberculosis officer, three nurses, a dispenser,
and two secretaries, one of whom is honorary.
The cases requiring institutional treatment are taken into
institutions under the control of the London County Council, the
Board of Guardians, and to a much less extent Come under the
care of the Various hospitals.
No progress has as yet been made with regard to the provision
of a home (not a hospital) for those whose home conditions are bad,
and who are so ill that they are never likely to recover, but will
drag on an existence devoid of all hope Or comfort. In previous
reports this has been mentioned, not on account of the danger of
infection to others, but by reason of the poverty brought about by
the wants of the invalid and his inability in any way to earn a
moderate proportion of his cost. No expensive premises or staff
would be necessary, the only indispensable feature being that it
should have so much of the characteristics of a home so as to
attract rather than to repel.
Co-operation exists with the school clinics whereby cases that
have been examined by the School medical officers are Sent to the
dispensary, and Camberwell patients are often referred to the same
place from the general hospitals.
The notified cases are visited where it seems advisable
at regular intervals by the women sanitary inspectors. In cases
where suspicious symptoms are found to have arisen, the persons
affected are advised to consult their own doctors, or if too poor to
be able to do this, to attend the dispensary.
The Care Committee try to find employment for those suffering,
but they are often unable on the spur of the moment to give the