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REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH ON THE
TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARY SCHEME FOR THE
BOROUGH OF HACKNEY.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall, Hackney, N.E.
17th September, 1914.
To the Chairman and Members
of the Public Health Committee.
Gentlemen,
In a report presented to the Public Health Committee in
February of last year, I pointed out the most advisable means of
providing a Dispensary Unit in connection with the Borough of
Hackney, for the treatment of cases of Tuberculosis.
On January 15th of this year the Borough Council approved
of the principle of providing two Tuberculosis Dispensaries for the
Borough, one in connection with the Metropolitan Hospital, and
the other in connection with the Victoria Park Hospital, and
authorised the Public Health Committee to continue their negotiations
with the Hospital Authorities in question and to make such
other enquiries as shall enable them to submit a complete report
of their scheme to the Borough Council.
These negotiations have now arrived at such a stage as to
enable the complete scheme to be formulated.
This scheme has been drafted to provide Dispensary treatment
for cases of Tuberculosis in the Borough amongst both insured
and uninsured persons, and may be said to consist of three parts:—
(1) the provision of one or more Dispensaries for the medical treatment
of Tuberculous persons; (2) the adoption of measures to
discover incipient cases of that disease, and to prevent its spread;
(3) the arrangements necessary to provide "After-care" and help
to patients supplementary to treatment. I will now deal with
these three sections seriatim.