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great importance of making full use of their powers of preventing
overcrowding and securing removal of any conditions tending to injure
the health of their districts.
The Board also pointed out that local authorities have power to
provide sanatoria, or contract for use of such institutions, and state that
they are advised these powers enable local authorities to provide or
contract for the use of dispensaries or out-patient hospitals.
The Public Health and Housing Committee were informed that
sanatoria treatment for tuberculosis, however, was being provided for
under the National Insurance Bill then before Parliament, and steps had
been taken locally for the provision of a tuberculosis dispensary for
Poplar by voluntary means. This dispensary will be in operation early
in the year 1912.
In connection with the Local Government Board Order in respect of
the notification and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, it was considered
desirable that samples of sputum should be bacteriologically examined,
and the Public Health and Housing Committee authorised examination
by the Lister Institute on the same terms as for similar examinations in
connection with cases of diphtheria and typhoid fever. The Council
approved of the action of the Committee.
Each medical practitioner practising within the Borough of Poplar
was supplied with the following letter and copy of the regulations, viz.:—
[Copy. |
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1911.
Public Health Offices,
Metropolitan Borough of Poplar,
Bow Road, E.
(Corner of Fairfield Road),
191...
Sir,
I beg to draw your attention to the Order of the Local
Government Board dated 15th November, 1911, which imposes
important duties upon medical practitioners relating to the
notification to the Medical Officer of Health of cases of pulmonary
tuberculosis. A copy of the Order is enclosed, together with a
copy of the official circular accompanying the Order.