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BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK.
Southwark Tuberculosis Dispensary,
82-84, Newington Causeway, S.B
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Borough of Southwark.
Sir, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have pleasure in presenting my Annual Report for the year 1926.
The work of the Dispensary has been carried on on similar lines as
heretofore, the staff consisting of a Secretary Dispenser and three Nurses.
I am sorry to have to record that early in the year we lost the services of
Nurse M. E. Faulkner through ill-health ; she had been in the service of
the Dispensary ever since it was started in 1912, and was a most efficient
worker, and she is greatly missed by all the Staff.
Her place was taken by Nurse IT. H. Jay, who came to us from the
Surrey County Council. We still send a large number of patients away
unrier the London County Council scheme to sanatoria for treatment in
definitely tubercular cases, and to hospitals for observation in doubtful
cases. Now that the London County Council have two hospitals for
advanced cases, one at Colindale in North London and the other at Grove
Park in South London, we have been able to deal with more of this class
of case than formerly.
Under a new arrangement with the London County Council we are
able now to get children away within a few hours of their cases being
diagnosed, instead of having to wait some time for a vacancy. The
London County Council also deal with a good number of children who
were previously dealt with by the Invalid Children's Aid Association, in
the way of convalescent treatment and also with the Boarding-Out
Scheme for the children of tubercular patients.
The Invalid Children's Aid Association has been a great help to us
in dealing with a large number of delicate children, by sending them to
various convalescent homes.
Children also suffering from various forms of tuberculosis have been
sent to Open-Air Schools under the London County Council on their
return from Sanatoria, and pre-tubercular children to Stowey House
School, also under the London County Council.