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division of Middlesex into 5 dispensary areas—area No. 1 to include
Enfield, Edmonton, and Tottenham Urban Districts, to which will be
appointed 1 Tuberculosis Officer, 1 Assistant Tuberculosis Officer, and
3 Tuberculosis Nurses; treatment to be given to both insured and noninsured
persons.
On July 11th the Chairman of the Sanitary Committee (Rev.
Preb. Sanders) and the Medical Officer of Health attended a conference
of the Local Sanitary Authorities of Area No. 1 at Caxton Hall, with
the County Public Health Sub-Committee, to consider the provisional
scheme, at which it was resolved that " Whilst this Conference is in
favour of the principle of the County Council being the organizing
authority for the provision of sanitorium benefit, it requests the County
Council, before adopting any permanent scheme as outlined in the
Public Health, Housing and General Purposes Committee's report, to give
the Local Authorities the opportunity of further consideration of such
a scheme."
The delegates of the other areas met also the same week, and the
resolutions passed thereat were shortly afterwards sent to each Council,
who were asked to offer any suggestions for the improvement of the
County scheme to the County Public Health Committee.
On 27th August my Council received a letter from the County
Insurance Committee stating that the County would be divided into 24
local sub-committees for the purposes of dealing with sanitorium benefits.
This Committee is apparently the one suggested in the County Public
Health Committee's report as " a local advisory and care committee."
Edmonton is No. 2 District of Dispensary Area No. 1. Councillors
Cull, Platten, and Sanders were then selected to represent the Council
on this Sub-Committee; the Chairman of the Council (Mr. S. H. Platten)
stated that he was of opinion that the Medical Officer of Health should be
a co-opted member of the Local Sub-Committee to assist in carrying out
the provisions of the Act with regard to sanitorium benefits, as every
notifiable case comes before him, and that the services of such an officer
would be invaluable to the Local Committee in dealing with the business
to be transacted by them.
During the vacation (August) the following documents were
received by the Medical Officer of Health, and he reported thereon as
follows, on September 4th, 1912, to the Sanitary Committee and
Council:—
(1). Circular of the Local Government Board, dated 6th July,
1912, re provisional and permanent arrangements for the treatment of
tuberculosis.