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sary physician or by the Medical Officer of Health
of the Borough and his staff, and for the examination
by the Dispensary physician of such cases
as the Medical Officer of Health or a medical
practitioner may require, either at the Dispensary
or in the homes of suspects and contacts.
(vii) The scheme shall be conducted with
reasonable economy and the arrangements and
expenditure shall be annually submitted to the
Council for its approval.
(viii) The scheme shall provide for distinguishing
clearly between the cost of treating
insured and uninsured persons, having regard to
the opinion expressed by the Council that insured
persons should not be paid for out of the rates.
(b) That it be suggested to local sanitary authorities
that they should make arrangements to pay
for patients residing in the districts under their
respective jurisdiction attending dispensaries attached
to hospitals in any part of the Administrative
County of London.
32. The position summarised seems to be as
follows:—
Preventive and Other Measures.
It appears, briefly, that the scheme to be formulated
by the Borough Council must include not
only a dispensary in the ordinarily accepted sense of
the word, but provision for expert methods of diagnosis,
including bacteriology, dental treatment,
X-ray examinations, and so forth, and the provision
of "observation" beds. Stress is laid on the necessity
for co-operation with existing hospitals; and, in
view of the Victoria Park Chest Hospital being