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The Borough of Poplar Dispensary for the Prevention of
Consumption.
The General Purposes Committee reported that they had considered
the reference to them to negotiate with the Committee of the Borough
of Poplar Dispensary for the Prevention of Consumption for an agreement
for treatment at the Dispensary of insured and non-insured cases of
Tuberculosis. The General Purposes Committee appointed representatives
to act in conjunction with representatives of the Public Health
and Housing Committee to interview the Dispensary Committee on the
subject, and the General Purposes Committee received the following
report, viz. :—
"Report of Joint Committee re Agreement with the Borough of Poplar
Dispensary for the Prevention of Consumption.
It will be remembered that at the last meeting, after receiving
such information as was then available, three members were appointed
to act with three members to the Public Health and Housing Committee
in joint Conference with the Executive Committee of the Borough
of Poplar Dispensary for the Prevention and Treatment of Consumption,
and after very careful examination of the expenditure
of that institution during the year 1913, the joint Committee consider
that out of the total expenditure of £2,246, a sum of £1,200 would be
a fair and approximate annual sum for the Council to contribute
towards the treatment of insured and non-insured patients resident
within the Borough of Poplar.
Of this £1,200, part will be contributed by the London County
Insurance Committee, who have already offered to the Dispensary a
sum of £200 which the Executive Committee of that Institution did
not consider adequate.
Assuming the sum of £200 were sufficient, of the remaining
£1,000 fifty per cent. (£500) would be provided by the Local