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in the Borough on the lines suggested, be approved in principle, and
that it be referred to the General Purposes Committee to negotiate the
terms of such Agreement and report thereon to the Council.
The Borough of Poplar Dispensary for the Prevention of
Consumption.
The Dispensary has now been in full working order for nearly two
years, and Dr. Cullen, the Tuberculosis Officer, reported that 45 consumptive
patients during the year 1913 had been brought back to working
capacity as the result of treatment at the Dispensary, 16 of these patients
were under Tuberculin injections. No deaths under tuberculin treatment
occurred. In all probability, but for the Dispensary many of these
patients would have been dead, and their dependents on the rates.
It was reported to the Public Health and Housing Committee that
an Assistant Medical Officer and a Dispenser had been appointed at the
Tuberculosis Dispensary, Bow Road, and that the Executive Committee
of the Dispensary had agreed to undertake, free of charge, the examination
of sputum samples submitted by the Public Health Department, and
which were examined by the Lister Institute at a cost of about 4s. per
sample.
Since 13th March, 1913,120 specimens of Sputum have been examined
at the Dispensary for the Public Health Department free of cost.