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10.* Treatment (advice and medicine) at the Dispensary
to be free, but registered general medical
practitioners to have the power of recommending
patients to the Dispensary for treatment, but no
patient to be treated thereat if it be found on enquiry
that such patient is able to pay for attendance, and
is, at the time, or has recently been, under the care
of a registered general practitioner, without the consent
of such practitioner, or of the Medical Officer of
Health.
11. The Dispensarv to work in close co-operation
with all organisations and societies (voluntary or otherwise).
12. The Dispensary to be open at times suitable
for the attendance of the working classes for the examination
and treatment of all who come, or are sent,
under the conditions and restrictions stated above.
The following extracts from the Interim Report of the
Departmental Committee on Tuberculosis bear upon the
subject:—
Interim Report of the Departmental Committee on
Tuberculosis.
(1) The anti-tuberculosis campaign scheme should
provide for the detection and treatment of the
disease, whilst existing knowledge of the disease
must be increased by research. (Paragraph 4.)
(2) The first unit in the scheme is the Tuberculosis
Dispensary, and this unit must work in intimate
relationship with the second unit of the scheme,
viz., hospitals, sanatoria, farm colonies, open-air
schools, etc. (Paragraphs 18 to 24.)
(3) Special and systematic attention is to be paid to
children, childhood affording an excellent period
for detecting and dealing with the disease. (Paragraph
29.)
*Clause No 10 shall not apply to "insured" persons under the
National Insurance Act, 1911, referred to the Dispensaries by the
Insurance Committee under arrangements with the Borough Council.