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TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARY.
During the year a series of conferences were held between representatives of the
Health Committees of Finsbury, Islington and Shoreditch at which the question
of terminating the agreement under which a joint dispensary has been provided for
these three Boroughs at the Royal Chest Hospital, City Road, since October, 1913,
was fully discussed.
As a result of these deliberations, the Council decided at their meeting on 11th
March not to renew the present agreement after 31st March, 1931, and to consider
arrangements to be made for the establishment of a separate dispensary for Shoreditch
after that date.
The association with the Hospital authorities during the years that the present
agreement has been operative have been most happy, and has been the means of
doing a very great deal of excellent work.
I wish to thank Dr. Leitch and the Medical and Nursing Staff who have assisted
him for their co-operation and help during the past years, and to place on record an
appreciation of the fine service they have rendered in combating tuberculosis in the
Borough.
At their meeting on the 16th December, the Committee appointed Dr. Carl Knight
Cullen, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., D.P.H. (Assistant Tuberculosis Officer and Assistant
Medical Officer of Health, Metropolitan Borough of Poplar), to the post of Tuberculosis
Officer. It was arranged that Dr. Cullen should take up his duties at the beginning
of March, 1931.
Premises suitable for adaptation for the purpose of a Shoreditch Dispensary
were purchased at 145, Great Cambridge Street, and by the end of the year the
approval of the Ministry of Health and the London County Council having been given
to the plans, the work of reconstruction was in hand.
The work of the Dispensary during the year is shown in the following tables in
the form required by the Ministry of Health:—