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the Governors. This tuberculosis dispensary or department has grown to
sufficient importance to separate it from the general medical department and
to be constituted a department of its own, and an expert diagnostician (a
specialist in tuberculosis) has been appointed head of the department. This has
necessitated the dispensary removing from 126, Euston Road, n.w., to 39,
Oakley Square, N.W., where the premises are much larger and more convenient.
They are admirably suited and centrally situated for the purpose of a tuberculosis
dispensary or department for the Borough. The new department is being fitted
with the latest and most scientific appliances for the diagnosis of tuberculosis,
and the premises are being altered, adapted, repaired, and decorated at considerable
expense.
The expense of developing this tuberculosis dispensary or department has
practically exhausted the funds of the general dispensary. The capital
expenditure incurred, and to be incurred is approximately £1,000, and the
annual maintenance will probably amount to not very much less, a considerable
portion of which will have to be specially allocated to the tuberculosis
dispensary or department of the institution. The deputation also urged that
a great deal of trouble and expense would be saved in adapting and adopting
the existing institution, which has been doing the work for the last four years,
.than in establishing a new and rival institution.
A. The St. Pancras Dispensary consists of the following Departments :—
General Medical.
General Surgical.
Maternity.
Diseases of Women and Children.
Diseases of the Throat, Nose & Ear.
Diseases of the Eye.
Dentistry and Diseases of the Teeth.
Tuberculosis and Diseases of the Chest.
(1) The Tuberculosis Department is managed by a special Committee
of Management, which will be re-organised, and upon which will
sit representatives of the Dispensary, the Borough Council, the
General Practitioners of the Borough, and local cognate institutions,
the proportions to be approved by the Local
Government Board.
(2) The Officers of the Tuberculosis Department will consist of the
Tuberculosis Officer, who will conduct the consultations, the
Resident Medical Officer (who will act as assistant to the
Tuberculosis Officer and under his instructions when necessary
during part of the time), the Chemical, Pathological and Clerical
Assistant (who will also keep the records of the Department and
copies of the Medical Practitioners' Reports), the Nurse (whose
whole time will be devoted to the patients), and the Housekeeper
(part of whose time will be given to the care of the part of the
house occupied by the staff of the Tuberculosis Department).
The proportions of the salaries of these various officers to be
approved by the Local Government Board.