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(ii In the case of a person non-insured and not medically
attended, it shall be in the discretion of the Public
Health Committee as to whether such a case shall
be treated by the Tuberculosis Officer.
These recommendations were approved at that meeting by the
Council who received and adopted the following further report of the
Public Health Committee : —
(а) That they had received a report from the Commemoration
Committee to the effect that the subscriptions and donations
received, promised, and in prospect warranted the purchase in
the immediate future of a building in which to house the
various departments of work contemplated, namely : —
The Tuberculosis Dispensary of the Borough Council.
The Children's Clinic of the Council of Social Welfare.
The Mothers' Club and Girls' Classes of the Health Society.
and other tenants desiring rooms for Committee and other
Meetings.
(б) That the Commemoration Committee had decided that a freehold
property must be acquired for the purpose, and placed in the
hands of Trustees.
(c) That Mr. Henry Clark, D.L., J.P., and Mr. Frank Debenham,
J.P., had consented to act as Trustees.*
(id) That suitable premises had been viewed and approved by
members of the Committee most interested, and that the Committee
had resolved to make an offer for the same, subject to
the approval of the Local Government Board and their own
legal and sanitary advisers.
(e) That the Committee had been in communication with the Local
Government Board and the County Insurance Committee, and
had ascertained that a grant might be available from the Local
Government Board, provided they approved of the scheme in
so far as it referred to the provision of the Tuberculosis
*Mr. Herbert Marnham afterwards appointed as third Trustee.