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providing industrial employment for the tuberculous in hygienic workshops is
worth a more extended trial," and the report adds that the co.operation of the
Borough Tuberculosis Officer together with the Care Committee of the district
in which the workers live is essential if the organisation of the scheme is to prove
successful.
In connection with the observation of Health Week in the Borough a
meeting on the subject of the provision of subsidised workshops for tuberculous
men and women was held at the Town Hall under the Chairmanship of the
Eight Worshipful The Mayor (Alderman H. Warren Coleman. J.P.) and the
Chairman of the Public Health Committee (Councillor the Eeverend Henry Boss).
The meeting was well attended by members of the Metropolitan Public
Health and Poor Law Authorities. representatives of labour exchanges and
employment bureaux, insurance companies, approved societies and various
voluntary organisations interested in the welfare of tuberculous persons and
public health generally.
Subsequently the Public Health Committee adopted a resolution supporting
the institutions of subsidised workshops for skilled and unskilled tuberculous men
and women, carried on under a Committee of Management on which the local
Public Health and Tuberculosis Care Committees should be represented. Copies
of this resolution were forwarded to the Ministry of Health and the London
County Council.
Home Nursing for Tuberculous Patients.
With the sanction of the Minister of Health arrangements were made for
nursing of tuberculous patients by the Metropolitan Nursing Association. The
nursing is limited to cases in which there is urgent need of skilled nursing.
The service will be most useful both for diagnostic purposes and for nursing
patients whose removal to hospital is not practicable or where removal for some
reason is necessarily delayed; it will not be allowed to stand in the way of
admission to institution.
During the year four such cases were nursed, a total of 115 visits being paid
to these patients.
Dental Clinic for Tuberculous Persons.
Arrangements were continued for tuberculous persons referred from the
Tuberculosis Dispensary to receive dental treatment as part of the Council's
Tuberculosis Dispensary Scheme, at the Clinic of the British Dental Hospital,
No. 10, John Street, W.C.
In the year 1925, 12 new patients were treated.
Scaling and gum treatment was given in one case. Extractions with general
anaesthetic in one case and with local anaesthetic in two cases.
The Clinic is held by the British Dental Hospital at the Council's Maternity
Centre, 10, John Street, on Tuesday evenings. Before the tuberculous patients
we admitted the Clinic is open for the inhabitants of the neighbourhood.