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The advice given in this circular was on almost similar linei
to the terms of the resolutions of the Middlesex Districts Councils'
Association mentioned above. The Board suggest that one or more of
the dispensary medical officers may undertake, under the direction
of the Medical Officers of Health of the district, the investigations
necessary after notification for preventing the spread of infection and
for removing conditions favourable to infection. The circular states that
an arrangement should be entered into by County and District Councils
by which such officer or officers of the dispensary should act for the purpose
of these tuberculosis regulations as an officer of the District Council
under the instruction of their Medical Officer of Health. Therein the
Board state: "It has now been decided that the Exchequer will definitely
pay one half of the deficiency in all cases where the Local Authority has
accepted a like responsibility," i.e., for non-insured as well as insured
persons.
I prepared a special report on "The Administrative Control of
Tuberculosis," and presented it to my Sanitary Committee and Council,
and copies were forwarded (as required) to the County Council of
Middlesex and the Local Government Board. This appears as an
Appendix to this Annual Report.