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Report on the Work of the Tuberculosis
Dispensary for the Year 1931.
By Dr. P. L. T. Bennett, Tuberculosis Officer and
Medical Officer of the Bacteriological
Laboratory.
Routine.
The work in this department has been carried
out without any change from the previous year.
It will be remembered that in 1930 a revised Time
Table of Dispensary sessions was, with the approval
of the Public Health Committee, drawn up and commenced
to operate in June of that year. For the
information of new members of the Borough Council
I beg to submit this time-table, at present in operation :
Monday
10 to 11.30 a.m.—Women and Young Children.
1.45 to 3.0 p.m.—School Children.
Tuesday
10 to 11.30 a.m.—Men, Old and New Cases.
6.0 to 7.30 p.m.—Men and Women Workers.
W ednesday
10 to 11.30 a.m.—Women, Old and New Cases.
Thursday
1.45 to 3.0 p.m.—Children, New Cases.
Special appointments are also made for certain
new cases to be seen by the Tuberculosis officer, either
at home in consultation with their doctor, or at the
dispensary during non-session times. It is found most
convenient to deal with ear, nose and throat cases in
this way, as the special examination required is occasionally
lengthy and tends to delay other cases during
an ordinary session.
The provision of dressing rooms for both sexes
adjacent to the consulting rooms, and the working of
the new time-table are proving most convenient both
to patients and the dispensary staff.
Staff.
I am pleased to report that Miss R. Bowen,
Tuberculosis Health Visitor, who had the misfortune
to be seriously injured in an accident in July, 1930,
and had in consequence been unable to return to duty
for many months, was pronounced lit by Sir John