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it has been impossible to secure a remedy for the bad home environment
of patients visited. He has also called attention repeatedly
to the fact that
"Accommodation for advanced cases is still inadequate, and
there are many 'open' or infectious cases, whose home conditions
are bad, who would be safer in an institution, if provision for their
segregation could be obtained.
"Stormont House Open Air School, at Hackney Downs, has
entirely justified its existence. The classes remain full, and there is
still material to be found if more accommodation could be provided.
The benefit derived from this form of treatment has been apparent
in the children attending from this Dispensary.
A useful scheme has been evolved by the London County
Council with regard to children of school age, by which a closer
co-operation between the School Medical Officer and the Tuberculosis
Officer has been effected.
The Regulations, 1925, providing for the discontinuance of the
employment of a person engaged in the milking of cows, the treatment
of milk, the handling of vessels used for containing milk,
when such a person is suffering from Pulmonary Tuberculosis and
is in an infectious state, represent a wise provision against a
possible danger.
The milk allowances granted to a limited number of patients
have been much appreciated, and might well be extended with good
results.