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Tuberculosis
dispensary
service.
This scheme contemplates that five youths will be accepted for such employment
during each financial year. Three youths commenced work in the parks department
under the scheme in April, May and September, 1931, respectively, and three
more in January, March and May, 1932, respectively.
The lads have been kept under special observation by the chief officer of the
parks department, and his reports on all the boys have been uniformly excellent and
have borne testimony, not only to the soundness of judgment in the selection of
the boys for training, but to the efficiency of the training at the colony.
In London the dispensary service, which is an integral part of the Council's
tuberculosis scheme, is provided by the metropolitan borough councils. The Council
makes a grant to these councils of approximately 25 per cent, of the net approved
expenditure by the borough councils, after deducting the sum included in the
general exchequer grant under the Local Government Act, 1929, in substitution for
the former fixed grant paid by the exchequer as compensation for the cancellation
of grants under the National Health Insurance Acts.
There are now 23 municipal dispensaries (including two branch dispensaries) and
8 dispensaries at voluntary hospitals or under voluntary management, some of
which serve more than one borough.
Detailed information has been furnished by the metropolitan borough councils'
tuberculosis dispensary service as to the work of the tuberculosis dispensaries,
including particulars as to the numbers of new cases and "contacts" examined,
and the number of home visits, etc. The information is summarised in the table
on pages 34 and 35.