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Tuberculosis Care Committee.
On 29th May, the Clerk to the London County Council wrote to
the Borough Council referring to the arrangements made by them for
the establishment of Interim Tuberculosis Care Committees in London,
and suggesting that, as the difficulties experienced during the war had
largely disappeared, Borough Councils should establish permanent
Tuberculosis Care Committees on the lines indicated by the Local
Government Board in April, 1915. The Tuberculosis Sub-Committee
had before them particulars of the composition and work, &c., of the
Joint Tuberculosis Committee of the Hampstead Council of Social
Welfare, which had acted since 1915 as the interim Tuberculosis Care
Committee of the London County Council; and, after consideration, the
Sub-Committee suggested that the Public Health Committee shoidd
recommend the Borough Council to form a permanent Tuberculosis
Care Committee.
The Borough Council resolved—
1. That a permanent Tuberculosis Care Committee should be
established.
2. That such Committee should be constituted on the lines of
the (hen existing Interim Tuberculosis Care Committee, and
3. That the bodies represented on the Interim Committee
should be asked if they would be prepared to act, through
their representatives, on the permanent Committee.
At the close of the year the question of the Composition of this
Committee was still under consideration.
The Municipal Tuberculosis Dispensary.
Under the scheme for affiliating the Municipal Dispensary with the
Hampstead General Hospital, Dr. F. G. Crookshank was appointed as
Tuberculosis Medical Officer, and held office (temporarily) pending the
signing of the agreement by the Hospital, and confirmation by the
Ministry of Health. Dr. Crookshank resigned in September, and
Dr. A. J. Scott Pinchin, a member of the Staff of the Hospital, was
appointed in his stead, taking up the duties of the office on November 1st.
Under the arrangements by which the Tuberculosis Dispensary is
linked up with the Hampstead General Hospital, the Tuberculosis
Medical Officer —who is one of the Staff of that Hospital—can avail
himself of facilities offered by the hospital such as consultations with
Consulting Physicians, X ray examinations, bacteriological examinations,
etc., for which the Borough Council make a special payment.