Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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TUBERCULOSIS.
Report of Dr. W. C. P. Smith, Tuberculosis Officer and
Assistant Medical Officer of Health for Tuberculosis Purposes.
Information Required by Ministry of Health.
A list of dispensaries, specifying also branch dispensaries and 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.
(a) Borough Tuberculosis Dispensary.—I, Wellington Road,
Bow, E.3.
(b) Staff:-
Tuberculosis Officer: W. C.P.Smith.
Asst. Tuberculosis Officer: C. K. Cullen.
3 Health Visitors.
1 Dispenser.
1 Care Secretary.
1 Clerk.
1 Asst. Clerk.
1 Part-time Helper (female).
1 Caretaker.
(c) Residential Institutions:—
(а) Sanatoria, hospitals and homes available under the
London County Council scheme for both pulmonary and nonpulmonary
cases.
(б) The Poor Law Infirmary (St. Andrew's Hospital).
(c) Occasional In-Patient letters for hospitals or homes,
obtained from charitable sources.
(i.) In the case of administrative counties, precise particulars of arrangements
for co-operation with Sanitary Authorities and their officers.
The London County Council is the County Administrative
Authority.