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The Nurses visit the tuberculosis population on notification
and thereafter as far as possible at intervals of six
months or less, as may appear advisable. During the
year 5,088 such visits were made.
In addition to the ordinary health visits paid by them
the Dispensary Nurses undertake duties in connection
with the investigation of the social circumstances of the
households in which the patients belong. The result of
these inquiries are submitted to the Tuberculosis Care
Committee and form the basis upon which the Committee
makes its decision in the assessment of individual cases.
During the year 143 Home-Inquiry Schedules were submitted
to the Committee.
Tuberculosis Care Committee.
This Committee is formed of representatives of the
following bodies : the Borough Council, the County Council,
the local Public Assistance Committee, the Red Cross
Society, the United Services Fund, the Charity Organisation
Society, the Invalid Children's Aid Association, the
Labour Exchange and the Local Medical Practitioners,
and meets on the first and third Wednesday in each month
for the purpose of considering how patients and their
households can best be helped and the amount of contribution,
if any, which should be collected towards the
cost of institutional treatment under the London County
Council's Tuberculosis Scheme.
The Committee met on 15 occasions during the year.
There were submitted by the staff 148 applications for
residential treatment, a decrease of 53 compared with
1930. The Committee decided in 100 of these cases that
no payment should be required in respect of such treatment.
In the remaining 48 assessments of varying
amounts were made. In 58 instances, reconsideration of
these assessments was rendered necessary at subsequent
meetings, mainly by changes in the family circumstances.