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By arrangement with the Medical Superintendent
of the hospital, a weekly visit to the wards has
been made (usually on Friday afternoon), and
consultations between the Tuberculosis Officer and
members of the Hospital Staff carried out.
Holiday duties in the Dispensary have been
carried out by Dr. Miller Vine as in the preceding
year.
Miss R. Bowen, Tuberculosis Health Visitor,
left the Nursing Staff in February, 1933, following
a long period of illness and indifferent health.
Miss E. M. Pretty (of the Women's Health
Officers' Association) was appointed by the Borough
Council following the usual advertisement of the
vacant post.
Statistics for 1933.
During the year under consideration the number
of new cases from all sources was five hundred and
six, of which two hundred and thirty-nine were
directly referred by Borough practitioners and one
hundred and eleven by other medical authorities
and public societies; the remainder, having no
regular doctor, coming to the dispensary on their
own initiative or on the advice of other patients.
The number of patients on the register at the
end of the year totalled eight hundred and nine,
a decrease of forty-nine on the previous total
accounted for as usual by the numbers transferred
to other areas, discharged as recovered, or died.
It is noticed that there is an increasing tendency
for consumptives and their families to endeavour
to leave town for the suburbs, or further afield, if
possible. A certain number have moved into the
new housing areas which have of recent years been
developed by the London County Council and other