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Tuberculosis.
Tables H, H (1) and H (2) set out the summary of the notifications
(both compulsorily notified and voluntarily reported or heard of
from other sources under (a) age periods and (b) registration subdistricts,
with reference to pulmonary and other forms of tuberculosis.
There has been a steady decrease of official notifications as there has
been in connection with the deaths registered from the same disease.
Lambeth Municipal Tuberculosis Dispensaries Scheme
The Lambeth Scheme was completed by the re-organisation and
enlargement of the staff in connection with the Central Dispensary
(73, Effra Road, Brixton), in 1920 (March—April).
There are 2 Tuberculosis Dispensaries (a Central and a Branch), the
former being under the direct control of the Council and the latter of
the Governors of Sc. Thomas's Hospital.
The statistics at the Central Dispensary form a satisfactory record
of work done under the Council's (a) Tuberculosis Officer (Dr.
Richardson) and (b) Lady Secretary and Social Worker (Miss D. Scott
Baker), and the rest of the staff. Miss Baker is responsible for the
"after care" organisation in the outer (Southern Districts) of the
Borough, necessitating, during 1926, 60 special personal visits being
made by Miss Baker to the homes of patients.*
Special interviews, given to patients and relatives at the Central
Dispensary in connection with assessment and after-care, amount to
large numbers. Thus, during 1926, 210 cases were personally assessed by
Miss Scott Baker for the purpose of arranging sanatorium treatment
through the London County Council, involving the actual collection
and transmission to that body of a sum of £.527 12s. 3d.
The work of the St. Thomas's Hospital Branch Dispensary
Staff under Dr. Hebert as Tuberculosis Officer with the help of an
assistant Tuberculosis Officer (for Home visiting), and Miss Cummins,
the Lady Almoner at St. Thomas's Hospital, and her assistants, has
also been satisfactory. This is work that the Borough Council is
responsible for, and has been carried out by the Governors of St.
* These personal visits are in addition to attendances made at the Committees
of the Invalid Children's Aid Association, Emergency Help Fund Committee of the
British Red Cross and Springwell House Committee, on all of which Committees
Miss Baker serves in an official capacity.