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Council also supply on loan single beds and bedding in order to effect
the separation of infectious cases of Tuberculosis. During the year
one family took advantage of this facility.
Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1925.
No person suffering from Tuberculosis of the respiratory tract,
and being in an infectious state, may work in connection with a dairy
which would involve milking, treatment of milk, or handling milk
vessels. No case arose during the year necessitating action to be taken
under these Regulations.
Tuberculosis Care Work.
In July, 1938, a letter was received from the Hampstead Borough
Tuberculosis Care Committee, intimating that in view of financial
difficulties the Care Committee wished that the Council would take over
the work of that Committee.
The Care Committee, which was formed in September, 1922, took
over the work of the joint Tuberculosis Care Committee of the Hampstead
Council of Social Welfare which had acted since 1915 as the
Interim Tuberculosis Care Committee of the London County Council.
The Borough Council had made a grant towards the administrative
expenses of the Care Committee of £100 per annum since March, 1934,
and an additional sum of £10 was voted for the years 1937-8 and
1938-9 in connection with the expenses of a handicraft class.
It was ascertained that if the work of the Care Committee was
undertaken by a Committee of the Borough Council any representatives
of other bodies could serve only in an advisory capacity, as there did
not appear to be any power to co-opt members from outside the
Council. The Public Health Committee agreed that it was desirable
that the tuberculosis care work should be a matter for the Public
Health Committee, the actual detailed work being carried out through
a Sub-Committee consisting of six members of the Public Health
Committee, who would have the assistance in an advisory capacity of
representatives of certain outside bodies, and were of opinion that one
of the London County Council representatives should be from the
Public Assistance Section. It was felt desirable to appoint an assistant
for the purposes of tuberculosis care work, such person to be a