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LAMBETH MUNICIPAL TUBERCULOSIS
DISPENSARIES SCHEME.
The State Campaign against Tuberculosis has drawn
public attention to the disease, and the Borough Council,
after considering the whole subject, came to the decision
on July 25th, 1912, that the establishment and maintenance
of a Municipal Tuberculosis Dispensary* for the Borough
for the prevention and treatment of Tuberculosis would
prove of advantage, and instructions were given to the
Public Health Committee to bring up the necessary scheme
and estimates, which were afterwards finally approved by
the Council on October 3rd, 1912.
The Scheme was generally approved on October 30th,
1912, by the Local Government Board, to whom plans and
detailed particulars and estimates were submitted. The
details of the Scheme, as approved were as follow:—
1. The Borough Council to provide, and be responsible
for the maintenance of, the Lambeth Tuberculosis
Dispensary Scheme, as a Municipal undertaking, in
accordance with the suggestion of the "Astor" Departmental
(1912) Committee on Tuberculosis (Interim
Report).
2. The Tuberculosis Dispensary to be available for
the whole of the inhabitants of the Borough, and, if and
when approved by the Local Government Board, to be
used also by the London County Insurance Committee
and the Lambeth Local Insurance Sub-Committee, with
the consent of the National Insurance Commissioners,
for the purpose of administering, as required, "sanatorium"
benefit under the National Insurance Act,
1911, for "insured" persons residing within the
Borough.
*Tuberculosis Dispensaries (for medical treatment and advice) may
be provided by Metropolitan Sanitary Authorities out of the Rates
under the powers given by the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
section 75.