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National Insurance Act.
Sanatorium Benefit — Tuberculosis Dispensary, etc.
In preceding Annual Reports I gave details respecting the above and the
Report of the Departmental Committee on Tuberculosis.
The provision of a Tuberculosis Dispensary has again received much consideration
during the year. The Public Health Committee recommended that,
subject to the satisfactory settlement of details, the Council should approve a
proposed scheme for the establishment of a Tuberculosis Dispensary at St. Bartholomew's
Hospital, in accordance with a scheme submitted by the Sanitary
Committee of the City of London. That scheme also included the Borough of
Finsbury. The Borough of Finsbury, however, decided to provide a separate
Municipal Dispensary, and the matter was then deferred until the report of the
London County Council on the provision of Tuberculosis Dispensaries in London
had been considered.
In addition to other proposals that had been previously considered, proposed
schemes for the use of Tuberculosis Dispensaries at the Royal Free Hospital and
the University College Hospital also received the careful attention of the
Committee.
Finally arrangements were made with University College Hospital for the
use of their Dispensary as the Borough Tuberculosis Dispensary, and the same
was opened for our residents on February 2nd, 1915.
The Memorandum of the Insurance Committee for the County of London on
the treatment of insured persons at Tuberculosis Dispensaries provided by Borough
Councils was again under consideration, but with some of the proposals therein,
the Council did not concur.
During the year I received information from the London Insurance Committee
respecting 21 insured persons who had been admitted to sanatoria or hospitals
for consumption. I received information of the discharge of 20 of these, and also
of three admitted in 1913. Four of the 23 discharges were stated to be chronic
or advanced cases not likely to improve further at the institution. In 13 cases
the symptoms were quiescent and the patients were stated to be fit for ordinary
work in 8 cases and for light work in 4 cases. One patient was discharged for
disobedience to instructions and was recommended for domiciliary or dispensary
treatment. In 3 cases patients were discharged at their own request and two
were found not to be tuberculous. Three of the patients died during the year.
GLANDERS, ANTHRAX AND HYDROPHOBIA IN MAN.
No notifications were received.