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The Medical Officer of Health acts as Administrative
Tuberculosis Officer, and is a member of the Tuberculosis
Dispensary Committee.
SCHEME FOR THE TREATMENT OF
TUBERCULOSIS.
The Borough Council's scheme for the Treatment of Tuberculosis—particularly
for the provision of a Tuberculosis
Dispensary—was set out in the last Annual Report. Some
difficulties arose as to the proposed agreements with the
Tuberculosis Dispensary and the Dreadnought Hospital,
and these have undergone some modification.
It is hoped that a complete understanding has now been
arrived at and that the scheme will shortly receive the
approval of the Local Government Board and the London
County Council.
70. 4 spitting flasks were supplied at cost price (6d.),
compared with 25, 20, 21, 20 and 9 in the previous five years.
TUBERCULOSIS CARE COMMITTEE.
70a. Poor persons suffering from tuberculosis now receive
attention from several bodies and officials. The number of
these and the number of steps which are taken and inquiries
made render the routine somewhat complicated.
Care Committees were originally started specially to help
consumptive persons after returning from a sanatorium to
continue to carry out the healthy life which had been inculcated
at the sanatorium and to assist, if necessary, in providing
necessary means of subsistence.
When the London County Council undertook the provision
of sanatorium treatment for uninsured persons and decided