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the Public Health Department and the Tuberculosis Officer
appointed to this district under the National Health
Insurance Act. While the Sanitary Authority continues to
exercise supervision over the sanitary conditions of the
dwellings of the insured consumptives, the Tuberculosis
Officer takes medical charge of the patients and contacts.
The same enquiries are made respecting the notified sufferer
by the Medical Officer of Health or Sanitary Inspector as
are made by the Tuberculosis Officer or Tuberculosis Nurse,
and whoever first receives the information passes it to the
other official when he finds that the case properly belongs to
the latter. Certain uninsured consumptives also receive the
attention of the Tuberculosis Officer at the Central Dispensary,
50 Silver Street, Edmonton, and when the Dispensary
is opened in Tynemouth Road, Tottenham, many more
uninsured patients are likely to derive benefit from the
treatment to be administered there. The site of the
Tottenham Dispensary, located as it is in the immediate
vicinity of the Prince of Wales's Hospital, seems to be well
chosen, as the hospital has every equipment that will aid in
the diagnosis of obscure cases and in the treatment of
surgical and all other forms of Tuberculosis.
The three beds that the Tottenham Urban District
Council have at their disposal in the Clare Hall Sanatorium
are constantly filled with the uninsured who are not in
receipt of Poor Relief; but, unfortunately, owing to the long
residence necessary to effect lasting benefit upon even the
earliest cases, only a small number can be aided in the course
of a year. One of the patients treated in one of these beds