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Extra nourishment is provided under the Lambeth Borough
Council scheme (as certified by the Tuberculosis Officer to be
necessary) to patients awaiting admission to Sanatorium, or discharged
and waiting to start work, etc., and also in cases where
poor-law relief is already being given, but where extra nourishment
is required.
Branch Dispensary.
The District Nurse is asked to visit patients in their homes
when necessary, and all patients, who are ill at home, are visited
regularly by the Tuberculosis Visitor, and, as required, by the
Assistant Tuberculosis Medical Officer for visiting purposes.
Extra nurishment (Milk, Eggs, Butter) is provided by the
Borough Council when necessary, in suitable cases, on the recommendation
of the Tuberculosis Officer.
(xi) Central Dispensary.
Non-pulmonary tuberculosis is treated by means of residential
treatment through the L.C.C. where necessary, and, as there is
no surgical apparatus at the Central Dispensary and the premises
are entirely unsuitable for any form of surgical treatment, cases
needing ordinary out-patients treatment are referred as a general
rule to St. Thomas's Hospital, as the hospital connected with the
Lambeth Scheme, or, in special instances, to other General or
Special Hospitals, as the Tuberculosis Officer may decide.
Branch Dispensary.
Cases of tuberculosis of bones and joints, not needing
institutional treatment, attend at the Branch Dispensary, or in
the Orthopaedic Department of St. Thomas's Hospital when a
consultative opinion is desired. The money for necessary
Surgical Appliances is obtained in suitable cases by the Lady
Almoner either from the patients or from different Charitable
Societies (wholly or in part), or from both.
(xii) Central Dispensary.
Particulars of all home conditions and difficulties of tuberculosis
patients are recorded at the Central Dispensary, and by
means of a close co-operation with the United Service Fund,