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CHEST CLINIC REPORT
I am indebted to Dr. C. W. L. Jeanes, Chest Physician at the
Greenwich Chest Clinic for the following Report on Tuberculosis in
the Borough.
The Greenwich Chest Clinic is a very well equipped modern
building with adequate accommodation. Under a re-organisation
scheme completed at the end of 1955 there are now two medical
consulting rooms, a Nurses' reception room, Almoner's office and
patients' waiting room, and a modern X-ray Department with a
4-valve 400 m.a. X-ray apparatus including tomograph and an
Odelca 70 mm. camera unit. A centralised and compact X-ray
and note filing room has now been arranged and more office accommodation
has been made available for the clerical staff. In addition
there are two small adjoining buildings which are used for occupational
therapy and dressmaking classes for patients.
The Clinic is part of the Miller, St. Alfege's Hospital Group and
deals with all forms of chest disease from the diagnostic, therapeutic,
social and preventive aspects. The Physicians admit some of their
patients requiring in-patient treatment to their beds in St. Alfege's
Hospital and also have access through the Regional Hospital Board
to beds in specialised chest units and Sanatoria, principally Joyce
Green and Bow Arrow Hospitals at Dartford, for short term treatment,
the Eversfield Hospital, St. Leonards-on-Sea for long-term
treatment, Grove Park and the Brook Hospitals for thoracic surgery—both
tuberculous and non-tuberculous—and the Royal Sea
Bathing Hospital, Margate, for orthopaedic and renal tuberculosis.
During the year a number of visitors, some from overseas, came
to study the work of the Clinic. These included Mr. B. P. Pathak,
Secretary to the Government of Madhyer Pradesh, Nagpur, India,
Overseas visitors from Finland, Spain, France, Germany and
Venezuela, Colonial Scholars from Ghana, British Guiana and
Brunei and students from King's College Hospital, Battersea
Polytechnic and London University Institute of Education.
Dr. Jeanes had the privilege of being awarded a Travelling
Fellowship by the National Association for the Prevention of
Tuberculosis and visited Canada for three months as guest of the
Canadian Tuberculosis Association and also spent a month in the
United States. A report has already been presented to the Management
Committee on this 18,000 mile medical tour in which all the
principal cities in Canada and fifteen major cities in the United
States were visited.