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Tuberculosis Dispensaries—Home Visits and Inquiries.
In conscquence of a report made by your Medical Officer of Health in 1924, the Council
passed the following resolutions:—
(а) That the necessary arrangements be made for the dispensary treatment of persons
suffering from Tuberculosis to be carried out for the whole of the area of St. Pancras
at the Dispensary, 39, Oakley Square, N.W.1.
(b) That the agreement with University College Hospital for the dispensary treatment of
cases of Tuberculosis occurring in Wards 7 and 8 be not renewed after 31st March,
1925.
(c) That notice be given for the determination of the agreement as to the occupation by
the Council of a part of premises, 132, Maiden Road, used as a branch dispensary.
During the year effect was given to the above resolution of the Council, the sanetions
of the Ministry of Health and the London County Council having been duly received.
Home visits and inquiries, both as regards notified eases and contacts, were carried out
by the Women Inspectors of the Town Hall staff, and by the two nurses attached to the
dispensaries at Oakley Square and University College Hospital up to March 31st, 1925.
Since that date all visits and inquiries have been made by the Town Hall staff as the
Nurse at the Oakley Square Dispensary is fully occupied owing to the additional consultations
now held there.
The visiting work carried out by the above staff during the year in connection with
Tuberculosis was as follows:—
Visits by Tuberculosis Officer 189
„ Women Inspectors 6,868
,, Dispensary Nurses (to March 31st only) 325
Attendance of Women Inspectors at dispensaries 535
Number of cases in which disinfection was carried out 150
The table on the opposite page gives a summary of the work carried out at the
Tuberculosis Dispensaries during the year:—