[Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council.

  • Cambridgeshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1915
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Credit: [Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Federation of Friendly Societies’ Councils, who have passed a resolution that persons suffeiing from tuberculosis should be allowed to do remunerative work under medical supervision and at the same time receive sick pay. This relates to the private side of the work of the Societies, but it is not legally permissible on the State side. It is proposed to get over this difficulty by an experiment limited to Cambridgeshire by the formation of an After Care Association which will enable Approved Societies (not only Friendly Societies) to pay to the Association subscriptions which the Association will pay out to members at work. It will be seen that the private side can be dealt with all over the country where the Societies are so disposed, while action on the State side will for the present be limited to Cambridge- shire. If the foregoing scheme is successful a very valuable step will have been taken towards removing a serious obstacle to the maintenance of the physical benefit derived by sanatorium treatment, which at present results from lack of adequate food and suitable occupation on leaving the sanatorium. Sanatorium.—The number of admissions was smaller than in the preceding twelve months reported upon. If the Council's scheme for sanatorium provision for both insured and uninsured persons is finally agreed upon, the Insurance Committee will not be limited in accommodation for insured persons to the equivalent of their available funds. As already pointed out, the admission of cases will be governed by their urgency and not by the question of insurance or non-insurance. Dispensary.—The dispensary organisation is available for insured as well as uninsured persons, the Insurance