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Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1925. These Regulations
provide for the compulsory discontinuance of employment of persons engaged in
the handling or treatment of milk, who are suffering from tuberculosis. No case
of this kind came to the notice of the Council during the year. Every milk vendor
in the Borough is periodically reminded that the Tuberculosis Officer is willing to
examine, free of charge, all employees or candidates for employment in the milk
trade. No examinations, however, were made during the year.
Staff. This consists of one whole-time Tuberculosis Officer, two part-time
Assistant Tuberculosis Officers, three Tuberculosis Health Visitors, one ClerkDispenser,
and one Lay Organiser, who also acts as Secretary of the Care Committee.
In accordance with the practice in recent years, one Tuberculosis Visitor attended
a refresher course of two weeks during the winter.
The Work of the Dispensaries. The Council's main Dispensary is situated in
Maxey Road, Plumstead, but in April a branch Dispensary was opened at 179,
Well Hall Road, Eltham. It might be misleading if separate figures were shown
for each of these dispensaries, as most of the Eltham patients attended the Plumstead
Dispensary at some time during the year, and so in all the Tables the figures given
are for the service as a whole. ,
One of the Tuberculosis Officers attends at the main Dispensary every
week-day, but an evening session is held, instead of an afternoon one, on
Thursdays. Eight separate clinical sessions in all are held for men, for women,
and for children.
The branch Dispensary is open on three half-days a week—Monday afternoons
for men, and Wednesday and Friday mornings for women and children.
The total number of attendances at the Dispensaries during 1931 was 4,416.
In this connection it is interesting to point out that 221 of the persons notified
during 1931 attended the Dispensaries, which is equivalent to 78 93%. Th ecorresponding
percentage in 1930 was 78.6, and in 1929, 82'78.
A return of the work of the Dispensaries is given in Table No. 63.