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Chelsea Tuberculosis Dispensary.—This Dispensary, located at
Brompton Hospital, provides highly efficient treatment for all cases
resident in the Borough. By agreement with the Borough Council,
adequate Medical, Nursing and other necessary services are provided.
The Tuberculosis Officer (Dr. W. J. Fenton) is Dean ef-the Medical
Schooland Honoraronsulting Physician to the Hospital and his
services are available when required by any medical practitioner in the
Borough. Social work in connection with the Dispensary cases is carried
out systematically and well by a trained Social Worker.
With the approval of the Ministry of Health, the Borough Council
made a financial grant of £1,000 to Brompton Hospital for the year
commencing 1st April, 1938. An additional sum of £160 for Nurses
visits to homes of patients was also granted by the Council to the Hospital
and approved by the Ministry of Health.
Table No. 54, summarises, for the past two years, the number of
persons examined at the Dispensary for the first time, the percentage
of these cases in which definite tuberculosis was found and the total
attendances at the Dispensary.

51
42
33
24
'3.,