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Tuberculosis Dispensary.
The Tuberculosis Dispensary is provided and maintained
by the Kent County Council. The Tuberculosis
Dispensaries have undergone recent re-organisation
throughout the county. The Tuberculosis Officer in
charge of District No. 7, which includes Dispensaries
at Bromley and Penge, is Dr. G. B. A. Edelston.
The districts covered by these two dispensaries are
Bromley, Beckenham, Penge, Anerley, parts of
Sydenham and Upper Norwood, Bromley Rural,
Chislehurst and Sidcup. The Dispensary for Bromley
is held at 2, Park Road, on Wednesdays, from 1.30 to
3.30 p.m., and on Fridays from 5.0 to 6.0 p.m. The
Corporation provides a nurse for attendance at the
Dispensary from the Health Visiting Staff for the Wednesday
Dispensary, and a nurse from Chislehurst at the
present time undertakes the duty for Fridays. The
Health Visitor also carries out home visiting of patients.
The work of the Tuberculosis Dispensary is briefly
reported on by the Tuberculosis Officer, and appears in a
later part of this report.
Venereal Diseases Treatment Centres.
Provision for treatment is under the administration
of the Kent County Council. There is no centre in the
Borough. The close proximity of London, where there
are ample facilities available at the various London
Hospitals, provides an adequate and convenient service
for such cases.
V.—SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES.
Rivers and Streams.
The sanitary inspectors carry out periodical inspections
of all the watercourses and streams in the Borough.
During the year 23 inspections were made, and in two
instances nuisances from pollution were remedied after
service of informal notices. The pollutions in both
cases were not of a serious character.