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With 10 exceptions (7 insured and 3 non-insured), the consultations
had reference to patients living in the Outer (Southern)
Districts of the Borough, the area over which the Central Tuberculosis
Dispensary has jurisdiction, the 10 exceptions having reference
to patients living in the Inner (Northern) Districts, 6 home
consultations (5 insured and 1 uninsured) and 4 others (2 insured
and 2 uninsured).
With the appointment of an Assistant Tuberculosis Medical
Officer to help the Tuberculosis Officer of the Branch Tuberculosis
Dispensary (St. Thomas's Hospital), it is expected that systematic
medical visits to the homes of the patients will be carried out, and
that much valuable information will be obtained with regard to
" contacts," and the conditions under which such " contacts "
are living. This additional medical officer is found to be necessary
owing to the original Lambeth Municipal Tuberculosis Dispensaries
Scheme having exempted (at the request of the St. Thomas's
Hospital Governors) the Tuberculosis Medical Officer at the Branch
Tuberculosis Dispensary (St. Thomas's Hospital) from visiting the
patients of the Inner Districts at their homes. In the early stages
of the scheme it was thought that the Tuberculosis Medical Officer
of the Central Dispensary would have time to visit all the patients
throughout the Borough. As the scheme got working, this has
been found not to be practicable.