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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Pancras 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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Council to be made to each, dispensary both for insured and non-insured
patients, of which £141 in the case of the St. Pancras Dispensary and £50 in
the case of the University College Hospital Dispensary, being 25 per cent. of
the total grants in respect of non-insured persons, would come from the
borough funds, the remaining part of the grants coming from the Local
Government Board, the London County Council, and the London Insurance
Committee. Protracted negotiations took place and at the end of the year,
in spit-) of every wish on the part of the Borough Council and of the two
institutions to complete and carry out some such scheme, and of the fact that
the dispensaries were dealing with cases without payment, no arrangement
was come to, and no public money had been paid to the dispensaries. The
St. Pancras Dispensary, however, received interim grants from the London
Insurance Committee in respect of insured persons.
The actual work done at the dispensaries during 1914 is set out below, from figures Kindly supplied by the dispensaries
| St. Pancras Dispensary. | University College Hospital. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Insured. | Non-insured. | Total. | Insured. | Non-insured. | Total. | |
| No. of new cases | 60 | 173 | 233 | 29 | 32 | 61 |
| – | 127 | 127 | 17 | 91 | 108 | |
| Total number of attendances:– Cases | 987 | 1084 | 2071 | 154 | 176 | 330 |
| Contacts | – | 158 | 158 | 20 | 99 | 119 |
| No. of examinations for determining form of treatment | 20 | – | 20 | |||
Residential Institutions.—While the dispensary arrangements are in the
hands of the Borough Council, the provision of institutional treatment
(sanatorium and hospital) for non-insured persons has been undertaken bv the
London Count}7 Council. This was only begun at the end of 1914, and only
some 5 non-insured persons (3 children and 2 women) were dealt with by the
County Council during the year. In this connection it is to be remembered
that many tuberculous poor are dealt with by the Guardians in the Infirmaries
and that charitable societies, such as the Invalid Childrens' Aid Association,
send away a number of cases.
The London Insurance Committee have continued to provide sanatorium
and hospital treatment for insured tuburculous persons, and information was
received from them of 138 persons sent away during 1914 (compared with 165
during 1913). Nearly all of these were suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.