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The Medical Officer of Health is Administrative Tuberculosis
Officer and is a member of the Tuberculosis Dispensary
Committee.
80. After Care Work. The after-care work in this Borough
has not been very successful as the Interim Tuberculosis Care
Committee has had no funds at its disposal to assist patients and
great difficulty has been experienced in providing suitable
employment for the tuberculous person.
81. Future Development. The large question of the
treatment of tuberculosis is again being considered by the
Ministry of Health and by the London County Council, and it
may be that various present arrangements are at the moment
subject to revision and re-arrangement. In London the treatment
of tuberculosis may be roughly divided into two:—
(a) Treatment within the Borough.
(b) Treatment in residential institutions.
(b) may be dismissed in a few lines as a broad general principle
has been laid down that this is the function of the London
County Council.
With regard to (a) future development requires to be
considered on the following lines:—
(1) Provision of dental treatment.
(2) Provision of more adequate dispensary accommodation.
(3) Establishment of a Tuberculosis After Care Committee.
(4) A more intimate association of the Administrative and
Clinical work of the Borough in connection with Tuberculosis
ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION WITH REGARD
TO INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
82. On receipt of notification the district sanitary inspector
visits the house and enquires into the circumstances of each