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DISCHARGED TUBERCULOUS SOLDIERS AND SAILORS.
Arrangements were made at the commencement of the year
with the Ministry of Pensions for the home visiting and after care
of discharged soldiers and sailors suffering from tuberculosis.
An additional Tuberculosis Health Visitor was appointed, who,
together with the two Tuberculosis Health Visitors already
appointed, visited the homes of these patients, and became conversant
with their surroundings, and advised them of any alterations
which they deemed desirable in the sleeping accommodation,
sanitary conditions, cleanliness, etc., and also encouraged them to
carry out the instructions of the doctor in attendance, or the
Tuberculosis Officer, as to their mode of living.
During the year the number of discharged men visited was
266, and the total number of visits of this kind made was 763.
The proportion of the number of visits of such cases to the total
number of visits made by Tuberculosis Health Visitors to tuberculous
cases in the Borough was as one is to six.
Towards the end of the year the Ministry of Pensions asked
that the Tuberculosis Medical Officers be allowed to examine cases of
tuberculosis which appear before a Ministry of Pensions Medical
Board, and about which an expert opinion is required, The Council
resolved that the request be granted, and that they be allowed to
serve as members of Ministry of Pensions Medical Boards, or to make
expert reports to the Board on tuberculous patients, provided that
their doing so would not interfere with their attendances at the
Dispensaries.
DENTAL TREATMENT OF UNINSURED ADULTS AND
CHILD PATIENTS.
The Council were informed that the London County Council,
with the approval of the Ministry of Health, had extended its
scheme for the treatment of persons in London suffering from