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It is understood that the Local Government Board would be
prepared to regard Day Sanatoria established in connection with
Tuberculosis Dispensaries of the Metropolitan Borough Councils,
as part of the Dispensary organisation, and to pay a grant of 50 per
cent. of any expenditure incurred by the Borough Councils
concerned.
The London County Council in its letter asks whether the
Hackney Borough Council would be prepared to extend the scope
of its Dispensary scheme in the direction indicated, on the understanding
that the provision of education so far as it may be considered
necessary, shall be provided by the London County Council
as the Education Authority.
Before considering the desirability or otherwise of extending
the scope of the Tuberculosis Dispensary scheme in the direction
indicated, I think it is desirable, in the first place, to give the
Committee some particulars regarding the Day Sanatoria, their
work, utility and cost, as follows:—
Definition.—A Day Sanatorium is an institution at which
certain classes of children suffering from tuberculosis attend daily,
i.e., children who are unfit, for various reasons, to attend an
ordinary elementary or open-air school. During their attendance
these children are under constant medical supervision, and their
education, though subsidiary to medical treatment, is not neglected.
It appears that only children in weak health, arising from other
causes other than tuberculosis, attend open-air schools, except
perhaps cases in the pre-tuberculosis stage.
Class of Cases suitable for Day Sanatoria.
The following are suitable for Day Sanatoria:—
(a) Medical Cases—Children suffering from tuberculosis of
glands of neck, thorax and of other parts of body; tuberculosis of