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I.—The Tuberculosis Dispensaries.
It will be remembered that in the report above referred to, i
recommended the Borough Council to arrange with the governing
bodies of the Victoria Park Hospital, and the Metropolitan Hospital,
to provide a Dispensary in connection with each of these Hospitals
for the treatment of cases of Tuberculosis amongst the residents
of Hackney, the Dispensary connected with the former Hospital
serving the needs of the South-East Sub-district, with a population
of 57,198, and the Dispensary of the latter Hospital, the other three
Sub-districts of the Borough, with a population of 165,198. This
arrangement was provisionally suggested on the probable assumption
that Bethnal Green would be inclined also to enter into similar
arrangements as Hackney, with the governing body of the Victoria
Park Hospital.
This grouping of the activities of the proposed Dispensaries
must now be modified, owing to the Stoke Newington Borough
Council signifying their desire to use the Metropolitan Hospital
Dispensary for their Tuberculosis scheme, and also because of the
apparent disinclination of the Bethnal Green Borough Council
to use the Victoria Park Hospital Dispensary.