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regards: (1) The fees to be paid to dispensaries and doctors; (2) the
purchase of drugs and medicines and the price to be paid therefor;
(3) the preparation of lists of doctors who shall attend patients at
their homes, and (4) the linking, where necessary, of dispensary
and home treatment."
My report prepared on this reference was presented to the Committee
at their next meeting, and is set out in the appendix to this
report. Early in September, I was asked by the Clerk to the
Insurance Committee for London to arrange with a local practitioner
for the domiciliary treatment of an insured person suffering from
pulmonary tuberculosis. I made arrangements satisfactory to
both Insurance Committee and medical practitioners in this
case, as also in subsequent cases arising amongst insured persons
and requiring treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis until the end
of the year. The total number of such cases so dealt with up to
the end of 1912, was 22.
In October the Clerk to the Insurance Committee announced
publicly by means of a poster that the Insurance Committee were
prepared to give Sanatorium Benefit at once to insured persons
suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.
3. Hospital Accommodation.—The following table sets out in
detail the Sanatorium and Hospital accommodation provided by
the Hackney Board of Guardians for Poor Law cases of Pulmonary
Tuberculosis:—