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TUBERCULOSIS.
Report of Dr. W. G. P. Smith, Tuberculosis Officer and
Assistant Medical Officer of Health for Tuberculosis Purposes.
Information required by Ministry of Health.
(i.) A list of dispensaries, specifying also branch dispensaries ana
visiting stations; a list of the Tuberculosis Officers employed; a statement
of the number of other officers employed in dispensary work; a
list of residential institutions, specifying for each the number of beds
normally available for patients from the area of the Local Authority,
and the type of case for which these beds are used. In the case of
residential institutions belonging to the Local Authority, the names of
Medical Officers and the number of other officers should be given.
(1) (a) Tuberculosis Dispensary.—1, Wellington Road, Bow.
(2) Staff.
Tuberculosis Officer: W. C. P. Smith.
Assistant Tubeiculotis Office)': C. K. Cullen.
3 Health Visitors.
1 Dispenser.
1 Care Secretary.
1 Clerk.
1 Assistant Clerk.
1 Part-time helper (female).
1 Caretaker.
(3) Residential Institutions:
(a) Sanatoria —hospitals and homes available under the L.C.C.
scheme for both pulmonary and non-pulmonary cases.
(b) The Poor Law Infirmary (St. Andrew's Hospital).
(c) Occasional In-patient letters for hospitals or homes, obtained
from charitable sources.
(ii.) In the case of administrative counties, precise particulars of
arrangements for co-operation with Sanitary Authorities and their
officers.
The L.C.C. is the County Administrative authority.
(iii.) The nature and extent of co-operation with general and
special hospitals, school clinics, and other institutions.