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to provide at Highgate space for outdoor exercise and employment to supplement
the excellent and airy consumption wards. There is also need still for
further provision for chronic and advanced cases.
We have continued to work in close connection with the charitable and
religious institutions of the Borough, and we have found this co-operation
most useful. Friendly supervision and material help for our poor patients
have been thus obtained. About a hundred and twenty cases were referred to
the Public Welfare Association, either for visiting or with a view to material
help, or for both reasons.
If our work is to be thoroughly effectual, much supplementary help is
needed, and it is to be hoped that public attention will be directed to the need
for additional funds felt by the philanthropic bodies carrying on this portion
of this work, without which the medical advice obtained cannot prove fully
effective.
We are most fortunate in being able always to rely upon the ready help of
the philanthropic workers of the district. We are specially indebted to Miss
Neville, Mr. Hood, and Mr. Edwards, the Hon. Secs, of the Public Welfare
Association.
A monthly meeting of visitors attached to consumptive families is held, and
visitors consult the Department when necessary as to individual cases.
It was proposed to organise a separate Tuberculosis Department or
Dispensary on lines which have been successful elsewhere, but 110 great
progress has been made yet. It should be noted that, although we have no
actual tuberculosis dispensary, yet the principles upon which our work here is
conducted are those which have made the success of the dispensary system.
Much remains to be done in completing and amplifying our organisation
for dealing with this disease, but it is satisfactory to have found that our
scheme is, in its broad outlines, well suited to our purpose.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
M. E. Bibby,
Sanitary Inspector.