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afford proper assistance to many persons susceptible to
treatment by that means, and that the expenses at present
incurred should be available for the purpose of some other
scheme upon which the Committee desire to report at a
later date. We therefore
Recommend —That the Town Clerk be requested to
inform the Governors of Margaret Street Hospital that,
inasmuch as the Council is about to consider a scheme with
a view to the treatment of patients suffering from
tuberculosis in the Borough by means of the Dispensary
system, it is not the desire of the Council to make further
provision for the maintenance of beds at Fairlight
Sanatorium. (Adopted).
J. ROBERTSON,
Chairman.
By direction of the Public Health Committee the
Authorities of Queen Adelaide's Dispensary were first
approached, but after consideration the Board decided
that " a Tuberculosis Dispensary in their building
would probably militate against the prosperity of the
Institution; and, moreover, that as persons in an
infectious condition would occupy the waiting rooms,
a certain danger of communicating the disease to others
would be incurred " ; they therefore declined to entertain
the proposal. The matter was further discussed at a
full meeting of the Public Health Committee, and a
strong opinion was expressed, " That it is in the best
interests of the Borough that Bethnal Green should
have an Institution of its own entirely independent of
existing hospitals, and run on municipal lines."
Subsequently the Public Health Committee visited
the Tuberculosis Dispensary at Deptford, which is in
full working order, installed in an ordinary dwelling