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(6) The Dispensary at St. Thomas' Hospital being
approved by the Local Government Board as a
Branch Dispensary of the Lambeth Municipal Tuberculosis
Scheme, will be a recognised centre for the
treatment of Tuberculosis.
For some years past the authorities of St. Thomas'
Hospital have devoted the utmost care to the
treatment of cases of Tuberculosis, and the medical
staff responsible for the clinical treatment have received
most valuable assistance from the skilled staff
of the highly-equipped laboratories of the Hospital;
those laboratories will be available under the scheme.
It is, further, the object of the Governors and
the Staff to devote the full resources of the Hospital
to secure the utmost efficiency in treating all patients
who may attend in the St. Thomas' Hospital Tuberculosis
Department.
Yours faithfully,
(Signed) G. Q. Roberts,
Secretary.
Dr. Priestley,
Medical Officer of Health,
Town Hall, Lambeth, S.W.
This letter was submitted to the Local Government
Board and approved bv them on December 20th, 1912, subject
to the arrangements being properly related to the Public
Health work and to the general scheme of the Borough for
the treatment of persons suffering from tuberculosis. The
Board afterwards approved of the appointment of Dr.
Rodolph Charles Wingfield, B.A., M.B., B.CH. (Oxon).,
M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., by the St. Thomas' Hospital Governors as
Tuberculosis Officer to the St. Thomas' Branch (Lambeth)
Dispensary and Tuberculosis Department, and his qualifications
are set out in the following letter:—
Treasurer's Office,
St. Thomas' Hospital, S.E.
16th January, 1913.
Dear Sir,
I beg to inform you that at a meeting of the Grand
Committee of the Governors of this Hospital