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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. One
such examination was made during the year.
The County of London (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1930.—These Regulations
enable the County Council to maintain or arrange for the maintenance, otherwise
than in their homes, of children living in London in houses where, owing to overcrowding
or otherwise, they are, in the opinion of the County Medical Officer, in
danger of being infected with tuberculosis ; or whose parent or parents are receiving
institutional treatment for tuberculosis and for whose care adequate arrangements
cannot otherwise be made. During the year such arrangements were made for
four children.
Staff.—There is one whole-time Tuberculosis Officer and the other three assistant
medical officers devote three half-days per week to Tuberculosis and eight half-days
per week to Maternity and Child Welfare. There are three Tuberculosis Health
Visitors; one Clerk-Dispenser, who also acts as Secretary to the Care Committee,
and one Clerk.
The Work of the Dispensaries.—The Council's Dispensary is situated at Maxey
Road, Plumstead, and there is a branch Dispensary at 179, Well Hall Road, Eltham.
The Eltham branch was opened in 1931 and more use of it is being made now than
in that year. In accordance with the Minister of Health's instructions the Dispensary
figures are shown for the Borough as a whole and not for individual dispensaries.
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 1934 was 4,833.
In this connection it is interesting to point out that 202 of the persons notified during
'934 attended the Dispensaries, which is equivalent to 75.08 per cent. The corresponding
percentage in 1933 was 68.25, and in 1932 it was 89.7.