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ihe position with regard to the remaining 21 cases
may be summarized as under:—
Offered treatment in a General Hospital 16 (9 accepted).
Offered a vacancy in the Jewish Home
for Incurables 1 (Declined).
Recommended for the Spero Leather Factory 1 (Not eligible).
Recommended for Burrow Hill Colony 1 ( do. )
Recommended for Preston Hall or
Papworth Village Settlement 1 ( do. )
Offered vacancy in a Sanatorium 1 (Declined).
Nine children were recommended for admission to
an open-air school. Seven were admitted to Stormont
House, Hackney, one to Geere House, and in the remaining
case the family removed from the borough while the
case was under consideration.
GRANTS OF EXTRA NOURISHMENT.
During the year 382 grants of Grade A (Tuberculin
Tested) milk and new laid eggs were made to 136 necessitous
tuberculous patients at an estimated cost of £285.
Thirty patients were receiving nourishment at the end of
the year. Now that the detailed restriction of the
Ministry of Health has been removed by the Local
Government Act, slightly more has been spent on this
very necessary adjunct to medical treatment.
TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARY.
A full report on the work of the Dispensary, by
Dr. H. T. Howell, the Clinical Tuberculosis Officer,
together with a copy of the new Annual Return to the
Ministry of Health appears in the appendix to this
report on page 128.
I should like to draw attention to Dr. Howell's
remarks concerning the treatment of advanced cases and
the close connection between bad housing conditions
and Tuberculosis. I also endorse his opinion as to the
great value to the Tuberculosis service of the