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London Insurance Committee, consequently we have been able to obtain
treatment in sanatoria and hospitals for a considerable number of noninsured
persons.

The London County Council Health Department requests reports to
be sent periodically on the progress of those whom they have sent away,
and the same are obtained for all cases at the Dispensary who have been
treated at or in connection with it; these cases are kept, when the disease
is arrested, under supervision. By this means the Tuberculosis
Ofiicer keeps the old patients under observation and also frequently finds
out changes of addresses. The number of cases who move away leaving
no trace is very large, and as they obviously infect fresh dwellings, every
effort is made to find their destination, but frequently without result,
many of them having removed either to the country, or to some distant
part of London, while others have joined the Army.
Insured Persons dealt with under the head of Sanatorium Benefit.
There is still much misapprehension, even among practitioners, as to
the meaning of the term Sanatorium Benefit; this being frequently taken
as equivalent to Sanatorium Treatment, whereas Sanatorium Benefit, as
defined by the Act, includes four alternatives :—
1. Sanatorium Treatment.
2. Hospital Treatment.
3. Treatment at Dispensary.
4. Domiciliary Treatment under the Panel Practitioner.
A total of 258 cases were reported on to the Insurance Committee
and recommendations forwarded as to suitable treatment. The recommendations
were granted in practically all the cases.