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These fees are repaid to the Sanitary Authorities by the
Metropolitan Asylums Board.
Certificates have been forwarded to me by most of the
school teachers in the district relating to children who have
been excluded from school on account of non-notifiable infectious
diseases existing in their homes, such as Measles, WhoopingCough,
Mumps, &c.
BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS.
The Council renewed the arrangement with the Clinical
Research Association, of No. 1, Southwark-street, London Bridge,
for making bacteriological examinations and reports upon doubtful
cases of Diptheria and Enteric Fever. Every medical practitioner
in the Borough has been supplied with necessary apparatus for
sending specimens for examination. During the year ending
December 30th, 1905, 88 examinations were made of blood and
membrane for Enteric Fever and Diphtheria, with the result that
26 were positive and 62 negative:—
Enteric Fever. Diphtheria.
Positive 6 Positive 30
Negative 11 Negative 51
17 71
Total, 88.
At a cost of £15 11s. 4d.
DISINFECTION.
Disinfection is carried out at the Council's yard by means of
a steam apparatus (Washington-Lyons), in which all articles of
clothing and bedding are disinfected. Such infected articles which
would be destroyed by steam, as leather goods, boots, furs, books,
etc., are disinfected by formic aldehyde, volotised in an alformant
lamp in a specially constructed zinc-lined chamber. There are two
vans employed, one for use in collecting infected articles, the other
for returning them after disinfection is completed. With very few
exceptions, all disinfection is carried out by the staff of the Council,
and no charge is made,
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