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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Stepney 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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There are three Municipal Tuberculosis Dispensaries in the Borough. Their situation and hours of sessions are as follows:—
| 18, Great Prescot Street, Whitechapel. | |
| New Patients. | |
| Women and Children | Monday and Wednesday, 10-12 noon. |
| Men | Friday, 10-12 noon. |
| Workers | Tuesday, 6-8 p.m. |
| Attendances of old patients by appointment. | |
| Women and Children | Thursday, 2-5 p.m. |
| Men | Friday, 2-3 p.m. |
| 208, High Street. Shadwell. | New Patients. |
| Women and Children | Monday and Wednesday, 10-12 noon. |
| Men | Friday, 10-12 noon. |
| Workers | Tuesday, 6-8 p.m. |
| Attendances of old patients by appointment. | |
| Women and Children | Monday and Thursday, 2-5 p.m. |
| Men | Friday, 2-5 p.m. |
| 35, Stepney Green. | |
| Women and Children (New and old patients) | Monday and Thursday, 2-5 p.m. |
| Men (New and old patients) | Friday, 2-5 p.m. |
| Workers (New and old patients) | Tuesday, 6-8 p.m. |
| New patients by appointment. Daily at 10 a.m. | |
Tuberculosis
Dispensaries.
15 Children who were contacts of infectious cases of pulmonary
tuberculosis were boarded out during the year.
The Tuberculosis Care Committee held 30 meetings during 1933, 28 being
After Care sub-Committee meetings and 2 meetings of the full Committee
held at the Public Health Department.
After Care.
505 special cases were considered by the Committee, 432 for assessment
towards the cost of maintenance in sanatorium or hospital, and 73 were for
people needing assistance of some kind.
There were 72 more cases for assessment this year than in 1932, the extra
number being accounted for by the fact that since April 1st all cases of tuberculosis
entering the general hospitals of the London County Council come before
the Care Committee for Assessment, in addition to the patients entering sanatorium
or hospital through the ordinary Public Health Department of the
Council.
Although the Care Committee has no funds, in most of the cases needing
assistance the help sought was procured through the various charitable associations
or the Public Assistance Committee.
The Charity Organisation Society sent the wife of one patient for a very
badly needed holiday, and they also paid the arrears of insurance contributions
for a patient in order that she could become eligible for sickness benefit.