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Number of Patients under treatment or supervision at the Dispensary 31st
December, 1925 292*
* This figure includes a number diagnosed as non-tuberculous whose condition or environment is such
that further examinations are desirable.
The chief alteration made during the year in the running of the Dispensary
was the severance of connection with South St. Pancras after March 31st,
as the result of re-arrangements in the Dispensary facilities in that Borough.
At the same time, re-arrangements in the Borough of Holborn have resulted
in increased work for that Borough in the matter of visits and other work
The visiting of all cases notified—a total of 89 last year, and not only of patients
attending the Dispensary—is now carried out by the Tuberculosis Officer and
subsequently by the Tuberculosis Nurse. Close co-operation is maintained with
the Public Health Department by a daily visit of the Tuberculosis Nurse and
a weekly visit of the Tuberculosis Officer; also one of the clerks of the Public
Health Department visits the Dispensary weekly.
Close touch has also been maintained with the Invalid Children's Aid
Association, with the School Medical Service, and with the Maternity and
Child Welfare Centre, Help has been obtained from the I.C.A.A. in sending
away for convalescence children who, while not affected by tuberculosis, were
of a type likely to contract that disease; and advantage has also been taken,
when occasion offered, of the arrangements made between the L.C.C. and the
I.C.A.A. for sending to the country children who were contacts of tuberculous
patients and thus liable to infection. Help has also been obtained from the
School Medical Service in examination of child contacts whose attendance at the
Dispensary could not be secured; while on the other hand children suspected