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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Islington 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington Borough]
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1929]
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61 Deaths not notified or 17.6 per cent. of Total Deaths.
TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARIES.
The department has worked in close co-operation with the Tuberculosis Dispensaries.
Unfortunately the state of Dr. H. F. Comyn's health, the Tuberculosis
Officer for the Northern Dispensary District, had been giving considerable anxiety
for some time, which did not improve in spite of convalescence leave granted by
the hospital authority, and they reluctantly had to accept his resignation.
The Dispensary at the Royal Northern, or as it was then called the Great
Northern Central, Hospital, was opened in May, 1917, and Dr. Comyn was the
first and only Tuberculosis Officer at this Dispensary. (The Southern Dispensary
at the Royal Chest Hospital, City Road, a joint dispensary with the Boroughs of
Shoreditch and Finsbury, had been opened earlier, 1st August, 1916, Tuberculosis
Officer, Dr. A. J. McFarland). It is thus seen that at the time of his retirement
Dr. Comyn was the remaining originally appointed Tuberculosis Officer. He was
well liked by the patients, was a persona grata with the hospital staff, and his
work, which was outstanding, will be remembered.