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forwarded a draft model agreement providing for payment
to the Council by the Insurance Committee of a
lump sum per annum by quarterly instalments, in consideration
of the services provided under the agreement.
The Board further stated that as all insured persons are
provided with the services of a general practitioner, the
dispensary services required for such persons would be
somewhat less than in the case of uninsured persons, and
the Board expressed the opinion that during the period
ending 31st March, 1918, the sum of £9,362 per annum
would fairly represent the value of the dispensary services
required by the London Insurance Committee for
London as a whole, and the Board set forth a statement
as to apportionment of this sum of £9,362 per annum
between authorities in London, showing the sum of £250
per annum allocated to Bethnal Green.
19. For a considerable time past a sub-committee
of the Public Health Committee has caused inquiries to
be made in relation to the provision of a tuberculosis
dispensary for Bethnal Green and the principal question
which the sub-committee has endeavoured to investigate
for the purpose of report to the committee has been
whether it would be prudent for the Council to establish
a municipal tuberculosis dispensary, or whether the interests
of the Council would be better served by entering
into a contract for provision of the dispensary by and at
a local hospital. The sub-committee has considered
statistics showing the probable cost of a municipal tuberculosis
dispensary, such statistics being based on knowledge
then obtainable, which, in some particulars may
not at this date afford accurate ground on which to base
conclusions.