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Home Visiting.
The home visiting of notified and other cases of tuberculosis, and contacts, has been
carried out by certain of the women inspectors working from the Town Hall, and by the nurses
at the tuberculosis dispensaries. From the Town Hall, Miss Blaxland and Miss Parnell are
responsible for tuberculosis home visiting, to which they give part of their time. There is one
nurse at the St. Pancras Dispensary (and its branch) who devotes to home visiting such of her
time as is available for that purpose, and one nurse (part-time so far as St. Pancras is concerned)
at the University College Hospital Dispensary.
The visiting (and certain other) work carried out in the borough in connection with

Tuberculosis Dispensaries.
The staff at the St. Pancras Dispensary (39, Oakley Square, and branch at 132, Maiden
Road), which serves the part of the Borough lying north of Euston Road (population in 1911,
173,132), consists of the Borough Council's tuberculosis officer, one tuberculosis nurse, and one
(woman) clerical and general assistant, all full-time officers. In that part of the borough (Wards
1-6) the cases of tuberculosis notified in 1921 numbered 541 (405 pulmonary and 136 nonpulmonary)
and the deaths registered 229 (184 pulmonary and 45 non-pulmonary). The
tuberculosis dispensary at University College Hospital serves the whole of the Borough of
Holborn (population in 1911, 49,357), in addition to the part of St. Pancras lying south of
Euston Road (population in 1911, 45,255), as do also its staff, which consists of a part-time
tuberculosis officer and a full-time tuberculosis nurse. In that part of the borough (Wards 7
and 8) the cases of tuberculosis notified in 1921 numbered 149 (136 pulmonary and 13
non-pulmonary) and the deaths registered 66 (58 pulmonary and 8 non-pulmonary).
The Tuberculosis Officer at St. Pancras Dispensary (Dr. G. T. Calthrop) left on 1st October,
1921, and his place was taken temporarily by Dr. G. F. Hardy until 3rd May, 1922, when the
new Tuberculosis Officer,Dr. N. M. Donnelly, took up his duties. At University College Hospital
Dr. W. Fenwick Jones, the Tuberculosis Officer, left at the end of March and his place was taken
temporarily by Dr. S. J. Cowell. The new Tuberculous Officer, Dr. H. Evans, began work in
December.
Co-operation with hospitals, &c.—Cases referred by the school medical officer to the
Tuberculosis Officer are examined and appropriately treated where necessary. Children
attending the dispensary and needing such treatment as is provided at the school clinic, especially
dental treatment, are referred there for that purpose. At the St. Pancras Dispensary considerable
use is made by the Tuberculosis Officer of the general dispensary, particularly in referring
ear, nose and throat and skin cases. The use of hospitals for X-ray diagnosis, &c., is referred to
below.
* Exclusive of visits made by members of the Interim Tuberculosis Care Committee.
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