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The Public Health and Housing Committee appointed Mr. Councillor
R. H. Green to attend the Conference with the Medical Officer of Health.
The Greenwich Borough Council, following the Conference of
Metropolitan Borough Councils with the London County Council on the
subject of the treatment of tuberculosis, adopted the following resolutions,
viz.:—
"(1) That, in the opinion of this Council, there is no advantage
(but, on the contrary, definite disadvantage) in constituting the
London County Council or any other Central Body, the Authority
for dispensing relief and medical benefit to Tuberculosis patients
except in Sanatoria. Owing to the vast area and the immense
population of the County it would be impossible to avoid great
delay in dealing with cases unless a special department were set
up with a large staff and consequent heavy expense, while, if the
Borough be taken as a unit both for Dispensary treatment and for
recommending patients for Institutional treatment, there will
exist the expert staff and machinery for dealing promptly with
cases as they arise.
(2) That the Sanatoria should be provided by the County
Council or other Body on the same lines as the County Asylums
are at present provided, and that admission thereto should be on
somewhat similar lines to those at present adopted for admission
to hospital in cases of infectious disease. As a safeguard (if
thought desirable) against unnecessary resort to the Sanatorium
it could be provided that the Local Authority sending unsuitable
cases should pay the cost of receiving, maintenance and removal.
(3) That the present control of the Local Government Board
and the requirement that they shall approve the arrangements of
the Borough Council are sufficient to ensure that such arrangements
will be suitable, and that efficient Medical Officers will be appointed.
(4) That all Government Grants for Dispensary purposes
should, in the opinion of this Council, be paid direct to Borough
Councils, and not through the London County Council.
(5) That the President of the Local Government Board be
asked to receive a Deputation of Representatives of this and
other Borough Councils in support of the views expressed in the
foregoing Resolutions.