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Edwin J. Aldrick, J.P., Atlas Chemical Works, Millwall, E.,
Mayor of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar.
Fredk. Wm. Alexander, Medical Officer of Health for the
Metropolitan Borough of Poplar.
George Mathieson, Clarnico Works, Hackney Wick, N.E.,
Chairman and Managing Director of Messrs. Clarke, Nicholls &
Coombs, Ltd.
Fred. Thorne, J.P., Manchester Road, Cubitt Town, Member
of the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar.
A. Evans Thorp (Chairman), Fairfield Works, Bow, E.,
Alderman of the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar.
T. H. Fisher (Hon. Treasurer), Manager, London County &
Westminster Bank, Ltd., Bow Branch.
At a very large expense the building has been added to, adapted
furnished and fitted quite up-to-date as follows :—
Waiting room, nurse's room, medical officer's consulting room,
dispensary, bacteriological laboratory, and committee room;
there are also living rooms for the caretaker and his wife. The
Dispensary has been well stocked with drugs, and the laboratory
furnished with the latest scientific instruments used in such
institutions for assisting in the diagnosis and prognosis of tuberculosis,
and there is also an up-to-date X-ray apparatus, useful in
the diagnosis of deep-seated tuberculosis of the chest and also as a
record keeper of the condition of the patient.
The Dispensary was opened on the 22nd April last, and a Medical
Officer, Dispenser, Nurse, Caretaker and Clerk have been duly appointed.
A Care Committee has been instituted, consisting of ladies residing
within the Borough and two medical practitioners, to inquire into the
requirements and wants of cases attending the Dispensary. The ladies
of the Committee (numbering at present seven) also visit the homes of the
patients. The Executive Committee have also taken one bed at Benenden
Sanatorium, Kent, and are lending shelters for patients to sleep in at their
own homes, and are lending beds and bedding, so that consumptive
patients may sleep alone.