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The majority fail to do so, but in these cases no difficulty
has been experienced in securing the attendance at the Dispensary
of the patients themselves for examination purposes.
No special methods of diagnosis are in use. Doubtful
cases, upon which a further opinion is required necessitating
more elaborate investigation than the equipment of the
Dispensary will permit, are referred to the West London
Hospital or to the London County Council for admission to
one of its institutions.
Arrangements exist for the provision of Finsen Light treatment,
and artificial pneumothorax.
Tuberculin is not administered.
No opinion can be expressed on the relative value of the
various forms of treatment.
The Council has made provision in the estimates for the
expenditure for Dental treatment for tuberculous patients.
No definite arrangements for the provision of nursing
exists, but advantage is taken of the services of the District
Nurses' Association in cases where home nursing is required.
Patients requiring surgical apparatus are referred to one
of the Voluntary Associations.
No provision has been found practicable for the finding of
employment for T. B. patients.
Shelters are not provided by the Borough Council.
No special points as regards occupation have been noted.
The usual maximum incidence is found in the poorer and
more populated parts of the Borough.
Housing difficulties still exist, and overcrowding obtains
in many instances.
PUBLIC HEALTH (PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS)
REGULATIONS, 1925.
In July the Minister of Health, in the exercise of the
powers conferred on him by the Public Health Act, 1875, the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, the Public Health Act,
1896, and the Public Health (Regulations as to Food) Act,
1907, made the following regulations:—
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Public Health (Prevention
of Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1925, and shall come into operation
forthwith.
2. In these regulations—
The expression "local authority" means, as the case may be,
the Common Council of the City of London, the Council of a Metropolitan
Borough, the Council of a Municipal Borough or other Urban
District or the Council of a Rural District;