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annum, £56 of this amount would be the share of Borough of Stoke
Newington, and £224 the proportion for this Borough, of which
amount £112 would be refunded by the Ministry of Health, and £56
by the London County Council, so that the net expenditure chargeable
for the work to the Borough Council would amount to £56 per
annum. This amount is, however, exclusive of Sanatorium treatment
of patients, which has hitherto been defrayed by voluntary
contributions."
A joint Tuberculosis Care Committee has now been appointed
for the Boroughs of Hackney and Stoke Newington, and the old
Interim Committee now forms the Tuberculosis Care Committee
with the addition of two representatives from each of the respective
Borough Councils. The Committee is now authorised to incur an
expenditure in the provision of secretarial and clerical assistance
with office facilities, including postages, to an amount not exceeding
£280 per annum, and this expenditure is apportioned according to
the basis of population between the Borough Councils of Hackney
and Stoke Newington.
From the time the new Committee was formed until the end
of the year 49 patients were sent to institutions under the London
County Council's Tuberculosis Scheme, and 93 new patients were
referred to them for consideration. The total number of cases on
the Register at the end of the year was 253, all of whom are kept
under constant supervision by the Secretary of the Committee.
REPORTS OF TUBERCULOSIS OFFICERS.
The report of the Tuberculosis Officer appointed by the Council
for the Dispensary at the Metropolitan Hospital, submitted to the
Committee of Management of that Hospital, and the report made by
the Committee of Management of the Victoria Park Hospital on the
work of the Dispensary attached thereto for the year 1919 are set
out in the appendix (pages 125-137).