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Another great objection, however, is that under the arrangement
by which the children attending this school come under the treatment
of the school Medical Officer, who is also the Tuberculosis
Officer for Hackney, at the Victoria Park Hospital, any medicine
required has to be fetched from the Tuberculosis Dispensary at
Victoria Park, which is about two-and-a-half miles from Stoke
Newington. Under these existing circumstances, as far as Stoke
Newington is concerned, the aims of this branch of the Tuberculosis
Scheme are practically annulled.
The Interim Tuberculosis Care Committee for Hackney and
Stoke Newington has recently been constituted a Permanent Committee
under the joint Borough Councils, and as such, will now be
able to carry on its most important work with greater facility and
scope.
I am,
Your Obedient Servant,
L. UNWIN YOUNG,
Medical Tuberculosis Officer.
ACUTE POLIO-MYELITIS AND CEREBRO-SPINAL
FEVER.
Cerebro-spinal Fever is by far the more fatal of the two. One
non-fatal case was notified in the Borough during 1919 ; and no
case of Polio-myelitis.
VENEREAL DISEASES.
Advice upon the prevention and treatment of these Diseases
has been provided by posters on notice boards and public
conveniences, and by handbills distributed in factories and workshops.
It is found necessary to frequently renew the posters in
the public urinals, and Sir Herbert Ormond has supplied frames
with glass coverings to the notices exhibited in both the male and
female departments of the two large public conveniences within the
Borough.