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Middlesex Districts Councils' Association and our Sanitary Committee the
Council adopted the following resolution:—
"That in their opinion (a) the County Council should be the organising
authority generally; (b) the Tuberculosis Officers appointed by the County
Council should be consultants only, and not undertake treatment or any
administrative work; and (c) that the Local Public Health Service in each
district should be used to the fullest extent in order to prevent friction and
overlapping and unneccessary expense, and avoid what would be a separate and
distinct Health Authority for one disease only."
My special report on "The administrative control of tuberculosis in
Edmonton" which outlined a plan for securing the co-operation of my Council
with the Middlesex County Council and the County Insurance Committee was
presented to my Sanitary Committee on January 8th, and to my Council on
the 14th January, 1913. This report appears in the Council's minutes of the
latter date, and was published as a special appendix to my Annual Report for
1912. The Council decided (by a majority) not to take any action in the
matter, so that any attempt at co-operation was suspended. On February 11th,
at the request of the County Insurance Committee, Councillors S. H. Platten
and Rev. Preb. Sanders and W. A. Cull were re-elected members of the
Local Insurance Committee up to the 15th July, 1913, and up to such later
date as the scheme made on the 3rd February, 1913, by the County
Insurance Committee shall remain in force. N.B.—This Committee had not
then held their first meeting.
The County Public Health Committee issued a report, dated 27th
February, and I presented a synopsis of these proposals to the Sanitary Committee
of the 2nd April. The Chairman of the Sanitary Committee, Rev.
Preb. Sanders, and myself were appointed to attend a meeting of the County
Committee at Caxton Hall, on Thursday, April 10th, with reference to the site
of the tubercular dispensaries of area No. 1. These delegates presented a
report to a special meeting of the Council on Tuesday, April 15th. The
delegates' report protested against a totally different arrangement of the
dispensary sites for area No. 1 being laid before them at a moment's notice, and
their assent expected without further reference to their Council. The special
meeting of the Council approved of the delegates' protest, and a letter was sent
to the County Council approving and endorsing the views of the delegates.
The County Council was also asked to receive a deputation from Enfield and
Edmonton Councils. A copy of the delegates' report was sent to the Insurance
Commissioners and they were also asked to receive a deputation from the same
Councils as regards the proposed site of the head dispensary of area No. 1.
The representatives of the two Councils on the Middlesex County Council were
also asked to support this protest. At the Council meeting on the 22nd April,