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make a contribution of £300 a year towards its maintenance,
provided that the Dispensary would undertake
to treat any insured patient suffering from
tuberculosis, resident in Fulham, and any uninsured
person whose means are insufficient to pay for such
treatment; that the Council should have power to
appoint three of their members to serve on the Committee
of the Dispensary, and that the entire control of
preventive work of the Dispensary should be in the
hands of the Council acting through their Medical
Officer of Health, who would be Administrative Officer
of the Dispensary, but that in matters appertaining to
diagnosis and the treatment of patients the Medical
Officer of the Dispensary, who would be Tuberculosis
Officer of the Borough, should be entirely independent
of the control of the Council, and their Medical
Officer of Health.
The Council adopted these suggestions, and the
scheme having been sanctioned by the Local Government
Board, an agreement embodying the above
provisions has been submitted to the Dispensary Committee
and accepted by them.
In their circular letter of December 6th, 1912, the
Local Government Board stated that they were prepared
to make grants in aid to the amount of half the net cost
incurred, within reasonable limits, by local authorities,
in the treatment in dispensaries, sanatoria, and hospitals,
which form parts of a scheme approved by the Board for
the general treatment of tuberculosis in the area, of all
persons, whether insured or uninsured, after deducting
the amounts received from Insurance Committees, so
that the Council will only be responsible for one half
of the amount to be paid by them to the Dispensary
Committee.
Work of the Dispensary.
The following is a summary of the work of the
Dispensary in 1912:-