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Hampstead 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead, Metropolitan Borough of]
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3. Casuals of "No home" admitted to the Hampstead "Workhouse
Infirmary.
[ also occasionally receive certificates under the Hospital Regulations,
1911, of persons not properly Hampstead residents, who were
inmates of the Mount Vernon Hospital at Northwood, because the
place of residence prior to attendance at or admission to the Hospital
was given as Mount Vernon Hospital, Hampstead.
The notifications were received from the following sources:—
| Private Practitioners | 98 |
| School Doctors | 14 |
| Hospitals and Dispensaries | 123 |
| Hampstead District Poor Law Medical Officers | 32 |
| Medical Officer, Hampstead Workhouse | 34 |
| Medical Officers of outlying Poor Law Institutions on admission of Hampstead patients | 2 |
| Master of Hampstead Workhonse on discharge of patients | 10 |
| Masters of outlying Poor Law Institutions on the discharge of patients to Hampstead addresses | 5 |
| 318 |
Preventive and Curative Measures.
(The Municipal Tuberculosis Dispensary.)
A Tuberculosis Dispensary was recommended for Hampstead by
Dr. McCleary, my predecessor, in his Annual Report for the year 1910,
as an appropriate or useful memorial to His late Majesty King Edward
the Seventh ; and in his Report for 1911 mention was made that "the
best method of securing the early recognition of the disease is the
establishment of the institution known as the Tuberculosis Dispensary.'
On 18th May, 1911, on a report from the General Purposes
Committee, to whom the question of celebrating the Coronation of His
Majesty George V. had been referred, the Council resolved " That the
Mayor be asked to open a public subscription list for the purpose of
celebrating the Coronation of His Majesty King George V.. and of
providing a memorial to His late Majesty King Edward VII.
Accordingly, on the 13th July, 1911, the then Mayor, Mr. Alderman
Woodward issued a Memorandum giving a few details of the proposed