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Chelsea Tuberculosis Dispensary.—This Dispensary, located at
Brompton Hospital, provides highly efficient treatment for all cases
resident in the Borough. By agreement with the Borough Council,
adequate Medical Nursing and other necessary services are provided.
The Tuberculosis Officer (Dr. W. J. Fenton) is one of the Honorary
Physicians to the Hospital and his services are available when required
by any medical practitioner in the Borough. Social work in connection
with the Dispensary cases is carried out systematically and well
by a trained Social Worker.
With the approval of the Ministry of Health, the Borough Council
made a financial grant of £1,000 to Brompton Hospital for the year
commencing 1st April, 1935. An additional sum of £160 for Nurses
visits to homes of patients was also granted by the Council to the Hospital
and approved by the Ministry of Health.
Table No. 51 summarises, for the past two years, the number of
persons examined at the Dispensary for the first time, the percentage
of these cases in which definite tuberculosis was found and the total
attendances at the Dispensary.

Institutional Treatment.—The London County Council, the
authority mainly responsible for the institutional treatment of Tuberculosis
in London, maintains St. George's Home, in Milman's Street,
Chelsea, as a receiving hospital for cases of pulmonary tuberculosis
(females).
Of the cases which terminated fatally during the year, 44 per cent.
died in St. Luke's Hospital and 32 per cent. in other public institutions,
that is to say 76 per cent. died away from their homes, the corresponding
figure for 1934 being 84 per cent.
Co-operation with Hospitals and Invalid Children's Aid
Association.—Existing arrangements with general and special hospitals
in the neighbourhood continue to give satisfaction. Cases under
treatment at St. George's Hospital and St. Luke's Hospital are visited
by the Tuberculosis Visitor. Arrangements are made with Brompton
Hospital for the X-ray examination of difficult cases, and for the provision
of artificial pneumo-thorax refills. Many patients, both adults
and children, who attend the Dispensary for examination, either as
contacts or on their own initiative, are found to be suffering from