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The Committee met on 12 occasions during the year and two hundred and seventy-three
individual cases were considered.
Residential treatment was granted by the London County Council to 153 patients, 26 of whom
were children under the age of 16 years, and 3 children were boarded out under the Tuberculosis
Contact Scheme.
No funds are available in the hands of the Committee for (lie assistance of patients, but in
several instances help was obtained from voluntary agencies.
DISPENSARY TREATMENT OE TUBERCULOSIS.
For administrative purposes the Borough is divided into two dispensary areas, the line of
division passing down Inverness Terrace, Porchester Road, Ranelagh Road, Formosa Street to its
junction with Shirland Road, and Shirland Road to its junction with Kilburn Park Road. The
portion of the Borough to the east of this line is served by the St. Mary's Hospital Dispensary, and
the portion to the west of the line by the Paddington Tuberculosis Dispensary.
Paddington Tubekculosis Dispensary, 20, Talbot Road.
This is a voluntary agency supported by voluntary subscriptions, and a grant from the
Paddington Borough Council which for the year 1937 mounted to £1,600.
Dr. R. S. Walker, Tuberculosis Officer, reports as follows:—
The X-ray department of the Dispensary worked to full capacity during the year, 325
examinations being made. The importance of X-ray work in connection with prevention,
early diagnosis and artificial pneumothorax treatment of tuberculosis, cannot be over emphasised.
The artificial sunlight department continues to fulfil a useful function, and the results of
this form of treatment for delicate children are encouraging.
Two parties of students from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine attended
the Dispensary for lectures and demonstrations during the year. These lectures were given
by Dr. Harley Williams, Medical Commissioner of the National Association for the Prevention
of Tuberculosis, Lt.-Colonel E. D. Caddell, M.B., Secretary-General of the Association, and
myself.
Eight trained nurses, studying for the Health Visitor's Certificate at the College of Nursing
and Battersea Polytechnic attended here for short courses of practical experience in connection
with Tuberculosis work during 1937, and many nurses from all parts of the world paid us visits
whilst they were in London attending the International Council of Nurses.