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are eligible for employment in this workshop. Eighty men applied for admission. Four
Holborn men were recommended for employment, and of these two were accepted.
In September, the following Resolution was unanimously passed by the Committee:—
The Holborn Tuberculosis Care Committee considers it urgent that an Open Air Day
School should be provided for the delicate children of Central London, and requests
the London County Council to try to obtain a site for a permanent Open Air School,
either on the Foundling Hospital site, or on the "Bloomsbury Site."
The Resolution was forwarded to the Medical Officer, the Education Officer, and the Clerk
to the London County Council. Copies were also sent to the Members of Parliament, the
London County Council representatives, and the Town Clerks for the Boroughs of Finsbury,
Holborn and St. Pancras; also to various associations and individuals interested in the
welfare of children.
WILFRED H. DAVIES,
Chairman.
H. M. MATHIESON,
Hon. Secretary.
Home Nursing for Tuberculous Patients.
With the sanction of the Minister of Health arrangements were made for
nursing of tuberculous patients by the Metropolitan Nursing Association. The
nursing is limited to cases in which there is urgent need of skilled nursing.
The service will be most useful both for diagnostic purposes and for nursing
patients whose removal to hospital is not practicable or where removal for some
reason is necessarily delayed; it will not be allowed to stand in the way of
admission to institution.
During the year six such cases were nursed, a total of 146 visits being paid
to these patients.
Dental Clinic for Tuberculous Persons.
Arrangements were continued for tuberculous persons referred from the
Tuberculosis Dispensary to receive dental treatment as part of the Council's
Tuberculosis Dispensary Scheme, at the Clinic of the British Dental Hospital,
No. 10, John Street, W.C.
In the year 1926, eight new patients were treated.
Fillings were carried out in two cases and scaling and gum treatment was given
in one. Extractions with general anaesthetic in six cases. One denture was
provided.
The Clinic is held by the British Dental Hospital at the Council's Maternity
Centre, 10, John Street, on Tuesday evenings. Before the tuberculous patients
ire admitted the Clinic is open for inhabitants and workers of the neighbourhood.