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of the prevention and treatment scheme —may become known to
the staff: —
1. During home visits.
2. During the visits of patients and their people to the
Dispensary.
3. From letters received from patients or from their people.
4. Through progress reports received from local practitioners
concerning insured patients on domiciliary treatment.
5. From various other sources, e.g., Almoners of hospitals,
District Nurses, School Care Committees, etc., etc.
We have prepared a live current list of notified cases of
tuberculosis in the area. This list is retrospective to 1913, the
year in which the notification of all cases of tuberculosis became
compulsory. Our purpose is to keep this list alive, to keep in
touch with each case with discrimination, concentrating chiefly
where difficulties are threatening or are actually interfering with
proper anti-tuberculosis effort. Having discovered difficulties,
our further purpose is to place them quickly and directly before
those who have the power or means of dealing with them. Thus
those requiring help may be brought into touch with the Guardians, the Pensions Authorities, the Joint Council of the Order
of St. John of Jerusalem and the British Red Cross Society, the
Council of Management of the United Services Fund, the Employment
Exchanges of the Ministry of Labour, the Charity
Organisation Society, School Care Committees, the Invalid
Children's Aid Association, the Churches, Employers of Labour,
Bodies with Building Schemes, individuals who take an interest
and who wish to help the tuberculous, and other sources of help
too numerous to mention here. We take this opportunity of
thanking all those who have co-operated with us in helping the
needy tuberculous patients of Camberwell and their people.
Above all, we thank the Council of the Borough for their
sympathetic and zealous regard that the care work scheme be
carried out without any unnecessary exposure of the privacy of
family affairs.
Finally, it happens that as at December 3lst, 1924, 91 per
cent. of the cases of pulmonary tuberculosis and 57 per cent, of
the cases of non-pulmonary tuberculosis active, quiescent and
arrested on the current Notification Register of the Boroug ,
were between 15 and 65 years of age—a big problem of disablement
and earning capacity. It should be noted that the above
figures do not relate to age at primary notification.
WILLIAM BRAND.