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TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARY.
Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
1. The Departmental Committee on Tuberculosis
issued in May, 1912, an Interim Report in view of the
coming into force of the National Insurance Act, 1911.
2. The Report stipulated that any scheme being
the basis of an attempt to deal with the problem of
tuberculosis should be available for the whole community.
3. Under its existing powers, conferred by the
Public Health (London) Act 1891, and the Public
Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations 1912, the Borough
Council may undertake the treatment of persons suffering
from Tuberculosis in Dispensaries, Sanatoria, and a
home, having power to provide the necessary institutional
and other facilities.
4. The National Insurance Act 1911, section 16 (i)
provides that :—
for the purpose of administering sanatorium benefit
the Insurance Committees shall make arrangements
to the satisfaction of the Insurance Commissioners,
(a) with a view to providing treatment for
insured persons suffering from Tuberculosis, with
persons or local authorities, other than poor law
authorities, having the management of sanatoria or
other institutions approved by the Local Government
Board, which treatment it shall be lawful for
the Local Authority to provide with respect to
insured persons resident outside as well as those
resident within their area.
* M.A.B. now excepted (National Insurance Act, 1913, Section 39).