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Lambeth 1912

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

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and Chief Executive Tuberculosis Officer of the Lambeth
Municipal Tuberculosis Scheme.
With reference to the various points to which you
called attention:—
(1) The Governors agree that the Branch Dispensary
at St. Thomas' Hospital shall be worked in
close relation to the general health administration of
the Borough of Lambeth as regards tuberculosis,
and, in accordance with your suggestion, will entirely
serve the Inner Wards of the Borough of
Lambeth, namely, Marsh, Bishop, Prince's and
Vauxhall.
(2) The Branch Dispensary will be open for the
treatment of all persons, both those insured under
the National Insurance Act, 1911, and those not so
insured living within the Inner Wards of the Borough
of Lambeth namely, Marsh, Bishop, Prince's
and Vauxhall, and will be available for other persons
living in other parts of the Borough of Lambeth on
application by the Borough Council through the
Medical Officer of Health, and, further, will be
available for the treatment of all other suitable persons
who may present themselves for treatment at
St. Thomas' Hospital.
(3) The St. Thomas' Hospital Medical Tuberculosis
Officer will not visit houses in the Borough of Lambeth
for the purposes of treatment, but will be available
for consultation and diagnosis on application
being made for his services by the Medical Officer of
Health or medical practitioners practising within the
Borough of Lambeth in connection with Tuberculosis
Dispensary cases.
(4) The services of St. Thomas' Hospital Consulting
Staff will be available if requisitioned
by the Medical Tuberculosis Officer of the St.
Thomas' Hospital Tuberculosis Branch Dispensary.
(5) There will be beds available in St. Thomas'
Hospital for the treatment of suitable cases admitted
by the St. Thomas' Hospital Medical Tuberculosis
Officer.