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INTRODUCTION.
The Lambeth Municipal Tuberculosis Dispensaries
Scheme, as approved by the Local Government Board
and the National Insurance Commissioners, includes two
properly equipped and officered Dispensaries, or Clinics,*
both for diagnosis and treatment, for the use of the
Borough, viz.
(a) A Central Dispensary at 73 Effra Road, Brixton,
situated near to the Town Hall in the centre of the
Borough, under the care of Dr. S. Nicol Galbraith,
as Tuberculosis Medical Officer.
(b) A Branch Dispensary at St. Thomas's Hospital,
Lambeth Palace Road (separate and distinct from
the Main Out-Patient Departments), situated at the
northern end of the Borough, under the care of Dr.
R. C. Wingfield, as Tuberculosis Medical Officer.
The Medical Officer of Health of the Borough is the
Chief Executive Tuberculosis Officer, responsible to the
Borough Council for the general administration and local
execution of the Scheme.
The Central Dispensary was opened to the public on
July 23rd, 1913, and the Branch Dispensary on February
3rd, 1913, so that this First Report deals only with the
work carried out since those dates, up to and including
December 31st, 1913.
* The American term “Clinic" is better for use than the
word Dispensary," preventing confusion with existing Special
and General Dispensaries, whilst, in addition, it is a term that
is coming into use in connection with other Departments of
Public Health Administration, e.g., treatment of school
children, etc.