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The Lambeth (South) Chest Clinic
This Clinic was established in fully equipped accommodation
at St. Francis' Hospital early in 1951. It serves an estimated
population of 112,000 in that part of Lambeth in the S.E. Metropolitan
Hospital Board region and the boundary corresponds with
Brixton Hill, Brixton Road and the eastern border of Kennington
Park.
Although it is situated outside the Borough, patients have not
complained of difficulty in attending.
Co-operation between Clinic and Public Health Department is
good, and information concerning cases notified under the
Tuberculosis Regulations is exchanged weekly.
Work at the Clinic is still concerned mainly with the
Tuberculosis problem but more and more cases of non-tuberculous
disease, including carcinoma, are being seen. No special register
of such cases is kept but the incidence of carcinoma is increasing
and more cases are being referred for diagnosis and treatment.