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REPORT ON THE DESIRABILITY OF ESTABLISHING
DAY SANATORIA IN THE BOROUGH OF HACKNEY.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall, Hackney, E.8.
8th May, 1918.
To the Chairman and Members
of the Public Health Committee.
Gentlemen,
I have carefully considered the letter dated 4th February,
1918, from the Clerk of the London County Council, on the above
subject, and beg herewith to submit my report thereon.
It appears from enquiries made, that many children are found
to be suffering from various forms of tuberculosis to such an extent
as to preclude their attendance at the ordinary elementary schools,
and it has been suggested that these children would gain great
benefit, and, in some cases, complete cure from attendance at such
institutions where treatment would be the chief feature, and where
education would be given suitable to the condition of the child.
In a few of the London boroughs, arrangements of the kind
indicated have been made by Voluntary Committees working in
connection with the Tuberculosis Dispensaries, and the London
County Council as the Education Authority has supplied teachers.
The Council has had the working of these arrangements under close
observation for some time, and now regards them as a basis of a
development likely to prove of great value in combating the disease.
The Council is further of opinion that as the arrangements for Day
Sanatoria are necessarily closely related to the work of the Dispensaries,
the establishment of Day Sanatoria might be regarded as
part of the work of the Dispensaries.