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THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGHS OF HACKNEY
AND BETHNAL GREEN.
TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARY AT THE CITY OF
LONDON HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE HEART
AND LUNGS, VICTORIA PARK, E. 2.
REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1927.
In order to present a coherent report of the work of the Dispensary
it will be necessary to give details of the routine adopted.
I have to report a change in the personnel of the department.
Dr. C. H. Toussaint, after holding the post of Assistant Tuberculosis
Officer for a year, left us to take up similar duties at Bermondsey.
He was a very efficient officer, and we were extremely sorry to
lose him. Dr. W. J. Dowling, who for over two years held the
post of Medical Officer to Out-patients at Victoria Park Hospital,
was appointed in Dr. Toussaint's place in October, but I regret to
say that after being with us for two months his health broke
down, and he has been given three months' leave of absence.
Fortunately for us, however, the services of Dr. J. F. Landreth,
who has just vacated the post of Resident Medical Officer at the
Hospital, were available, and he was appointed as locum tenens
during Dr. Dowling's absence.
The sessions have remained unchanged, patients being seen
as previously on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday
mornings from 10 to 12 o'clock, Wednesday evenings from 5.30
to 7 o'clock, and Thursday evenings from 7.30 to 9 o'clock.
Saturday mornings are reserved for school children and such adults
as find it impossible to attend at other times, while the evening
sessions are strictly limited to those patients who are at work
during the day. Patients are seen in order of their arrival, and
as they may attend during any part of the session, the period of
waiting is reduced to a minimum, and in the majority of cases
to less than a quarter of an hour.
The accommodation of the department has remained unaltered.
We have allotted to us two consulting rooms, each with two
dressing-rooms and a dark room for throat examinations attached,
a waiting room, a laboratory, and offices for the Tuberculosis
Officers and Clerk. The suitability of the accommodation greatly