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Lambeth 1912

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]

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Metropolitan Boroughs' Standing Joint Committee.
Report of Departmental Committee on
Tuberculosis.
Resolutions passed by the Council of the Metropolitan Boroughs'
Standing Joint Committee on June 12th, 1912, and reported
to the Borough Council on July 11th, 1912.
(a) That in each Metropolitan Borough or City, the Local
Council should be named as the Body responsible
for the administration of the Local Tuberculosis
Dispensary, and for the local execution of the
Scheme.
(b) That, subject to the provision contained in (c), the
Medical Officer of Health should be named as the
Officer responsible to the Local Council for the
administration of the Local Tuberculosis Dispensary,
and for the local execution of the Scheme.
(c) That the chief Tuberculosis Officer of the Dispensary
should be independent of control by any other
medical man so far as his clinical duties are
concerned, but that, in regard to the general
conduct and administration of the Dispensary, he
should act under the direction of the Local
Medical Officer of Health.
(d) That the Committee appointed by the Council of the
Metropolitan Borough or City to manage a Local
Dispensary should have power to co-operate as