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the provision of "observation" beds, patients being
sent to the Hospital from a dispensary entirely
controlled by this Council, a course which I most
strongly favour.
2. In the direction of the establishment of the
Council's Dispensary at the Hospital.
GEORGE PADDOCK BATE, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health, Bethnal Green.
The foregoing report was received and approved by
the Dispensary Sub-Committee, who were decidedly in
favour of a dispensary under municipal control, with provision
for special methods of treatment at a local hospital.
Enquiries were ordered to be made of the Victoria Park,
the Mildmay Mission, the London, and the Queen's Hospitals,
to ascertain upon what terms such treatment would
be provided.
About this time the Local Government Board issued
a most important communication to the Metropolitan
Borough Councils, setting out in further detail the views of
the Board as to the manner in which arrangements for providing
dispensaries throughout London should be further
developed.
The Board upheld the views of a conference of representatives
of 12 general hospitals held in London, that
in all dispensary schemes special cases for consultative
purposes should be referred to appointed hospitals,
amongst which should be the 12 general hospitals with
medical schools.
It was also urged that facilities provided at existing