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The London County Council, in a report of their Public Health
Committee, dated 21st May, have outlined the method of linking
up institutional and dispensary treatment.
The same method, with perhaps certain modifications, will
probably be adopted by the Insurance Committee in the case of
insured persons. The Local Government Board, in their Memorandum
of the 26th July, 1912, have prescribed the procedure in the
case of the domiciliary treatment of insured persons.
Conditions under which the London County Council and the
Insurance Committee will Approve of the Dispensaries.
It is not necessary to set out in detail these conditions, which
are rather lengthy. It is sufficient to state that the conditions
under which the Hospital governing bodies have agreed to provide
the Dispensaries, have been drafted to be in harmony with the
conditions imposed by the above central authorities.
2.—Preventive Measures.
The nature and scope of these may be gauged from the following
extract from the Circular Letter of the Local Government
Board, dated 5th December, 1912:—
"The Board wish to emphasize the fact that it is the duty
of the Medical Officer of Health for the Sanitary District,
upon the receipt of a notification under the Tuberculosis
Regulations, either himself, or through an officer acting under
his instructions, to make such enquiries and take such steps
as may appear to him necessary or desirable for preventing
the spread of infection and for removing conditions favourable
to infection.
These enquiries will necessarily include investigations into
sources of infection, search for contacts and enquiry into housing
conditions."