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After clue donsideration this Joint Committee reported to the
Council on the 23rd October, 1912, recommending that steps be
taken for the establishment in the Borough of a Tuberculosis
Dispensary upon the lines of the scheme suggested by your
Medical Officer of Health, the cost of site and buildings being
estimated at £1.000.
The recommendation of the Joint Committee was adopted by
your Council, on the 23rd October, 1912.
Correspondence was then opened with the Local Government
Board asking for their provisional sanction.
The Local Government Board suggested the Council should
if possible lease or rent premises and adapt them for the purpose
of a dispensary.
Your Public Health Committee considered the suggestion
but found it impossible to adopt, and further considered
their original scheme the more economical. Difficulties then
arose with regard to the original site selected in Mount Pleasant
Road, and a new site was arranged for adjoining the baths at
Ladywell. Detailed plans and estimates were then submitted
to the Local Government Board and by the 9th March, 1914, the
Local Government Board informed the Council that they approved
generally of the Council's proposed scheme.
On the 25th March, the Public Health Committee reported
to the Council the Local Government Board's approval, and recommended
that the sum required for establishing a Tuberculosis
Dispensary in accordance with the Council's scheme should be
raised by loan.
The Council referred the matter back to the Committee.