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Treatment of Tuberculosis.
The Tuberculosis Dispensary, which acts as the
centre for the co-ordination of the treatment of
tuberculosis in the Borough, is situated at 114, New
King's Road. The premises are excellently adapted
for the purpose and were taken over on 1st April, 1921,
from the Voluntary Committee which from November,
1911, till that date, had carried out this important
work.
The administration of the Dispensary is now in
the hands of the Borough Council Public Health
Committee, subject to the approval of the arrangements
by the London County Council and the
Ministry of Health. The Ministry of Health contribute
50 per cent. and the London County Council 25 per
cent, of the net expenditure, the balance being found
by the Borough Council.
The staff consists of one whole-time tuberculosis
officer (Dr. J. Sullivan), one part-time assistant
tuberculosis officer (Dr. G. F. Hardy), three nurses, one
dispenser and laboratory assistant, one clerk and the
caretakers.
I append a short account by Dr. Sullivan of some of
the features of the work during 1922, which he considers
worthy of note.
Report by the Tuberculosis Officer on the Work of the
Tuberculosis Dispensary.—The care of persons suffering
from tuberculosis is undertaken by a number of
authorities under the general supervision of the Ministry
of Health, and in London two schemes exist, one under
the London County Council and the other under the
Poor Law Authorities. Under the London County
Council scheme the central co-ordinating authority
is the London County Council and the local centres
are the Borough Councils. Residential treatment is
provided by the London County Council in Institutions
belonging to the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and in
voluntary hospitals and sanatoria, and by the Guardians
in the tuberculosis wards of Infirmaries, while surgical
cases are sent to special hospitals both by the London