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Cards from the Visitors, the Medical Examiners availing themselves,
when necessary far diagnosis, of the specimen boxes
provided by the Borough Council for the bacteriological examination
of sputum, and notifying confirmed and probable cases of
pulmonary phthisis to the Medical Officer of Health, who passes
them on to the Woman Inspector for confidential inquiry.
3. The Public Health Department, upon the receipt of the Medical
Notification, sends to each case an Advice Card for the consumptive's
use, and an offer to disinfect the bedroom upon
removal of the patient from one room to another or one house to
another, together with a list of Public Institutions receiving
consumptives at different stages of the disease ; and in each case
makes enquiry into the hvgenic and social circumstances of the
patient in relation to the disease, and sends a copy of the inquiry
to the Medical Attendant notifying and to the Hon. Secretary of
the Public Welfare Association. (N.B.—The Public Health
Department carefully refrains from making any inquiry at the
place of occupation of a patieDt and from any other measures
likely to prejudice a patient.)
4. The Public Welfare Association receives, through their Hon. Sec.
from the Woman Inspector, a copy of the confidential inquiry
(where instruction, guidance and assistance are necessary) for the
purpose of the Visitor of the Association, in order that she may
arrange that medical advice and treatment appropriate to the
social and pecuniary circumstances of the case are provided, and
that the patient may be regularly and periodically visited at the
home to see that any medical instructions are properly carried out
and that the patient has such necessaries as are required to
re-establish or maintain health.
On the initiation of the Public Welfare Association, supported by the
St. Pancras Dispensary and the Municipal Authorities, a Tuberculosis Prevention
Exhibition was held at the Working Men's College, Crowndale Road,
from April 14th to 23rd, 1910.
This Exhibition, organised by the National Association for the Prevention
of Consumption, was supplemented by exhibits of local interest, and proved a
most effective method of demonstrating the possibilities of the prevention and
cure of consumption in this Borough. Popular lectures were given by leading
experts in the subject, and, during its stay in St. Pancras, it is estimated that
several thousands visited the Exhibition.
The following were the exhibits shown and lectures delivered:—
Division t.— The Disease.
Sub-Division I.—Pathology. (What Consumption is and its Effects.)
,, II.—Statistics and Statistical Inquiries.
Division 2.—The Spread of the Disease and Prevention of Spread.
Sub-Division I.—Personal.
,, II.—Domestic.
„ III.—Occupational and Public.