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Stepney 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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The two dispensaries at Steel's Lane and Stepney Green continue to function, and in the light of experience the time.table of sessions has been altered but not reduced. The present time.table for new patients is as follows:—
| Main. | Branch, | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | T. | W. | TH. | F. | S. | M. | T. | W. | TH. | F. | S. | |
| Morning | Men | School Children | Men | |||||||||
| Afternoon | Women and Children | Men | Women and Children | Women and Children | ||||||||
| Evening | Workers | Workers | ||||||||||
Tuberculosis
Dispensaries.
Eight meetings of the Tuberculosis Care Committee were held during 1936.
All cases are now discussed by the full Committee, which meets once a month
at the new main dispensary, instead of the three sub.Committees meeting at
each dispensary as before.
The three sub.Committees became one full Committee on the closing of
the Whitechapel and St. George.in.the.East dispensaries in November, 1935,
and the Stepney Green cases are discussed at the meetings at the main
dispensary.
Two meetings of the Standing Conference of the Metropolitan Borough
Tuberculosis Care Committees were held at the County Hall, and matters
concerning the welfare of tuberculosis patients were discussed and recommendations
sent to the London County Council.
There were no matters of outstanding urgency, so at the Spring meeting
the Medical Superintendent of Colindale Hospital gave an address on the
After.Care of patients, and at the meeting held in November, Dr. Somerville
Hastings, of the London County Council, attended, and answered questions
put to him by various members of the Care Committees.
420 cases, including new and old patients, came before the Care Committee
during the year, and of these 156 needed advice or assistance of some
kind, so that it will be seen that a good deal of care and after.care work is
necessary.
The Jewish Board of Guardians assisted 78 patients or their families; a
deserving case of tuberculosis referred to them is rarely refused help, and their
willing co.operation makes the handling of necessitous Jewish patients a
comparatively easy matter.
The voluntary charitable societies have again given valuable help in many
cases. These societies send representatives to the Care Committee, who are
often able, after hearing the details of a case, to take it back to their own
committee and obtain the kind of help we cannot at present give ourselves.
The Charity Organisation Society gave timely assistance in several cases.
They sent four people away for a badly needed change of air, and paid for
spectacles for another patient.
Tuberculosis
After Care.