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to the Medical Officer of Health bv the Sanitary Officers
(London) Order, 1891.
3. The Local Authorities are authorised "to pay from
time to time to the Medical Officer of Health, in addition to the
salary or other compensation payable" under existing Regulations
"a reasonable compensation for all action by the
Medical Officer of Health in the execution of this order."
The Public Health Committee considered this order and
reported thereon to the Borough Council on the 13th October.
The Council adopted the recommendation of the Public Health
Committee as follows:—
"That the Council do avail themselves of the power now
given them by providing a supply of anti-toxic serum for the
gratuitous use of medical practitioners, both as a prophylactic
and a curative agency, amongst the poorer inhabitants in the
Borough; and that it be an instruction to the Medical Officer
of Health to make arrangements for the keeping, distribution
and use of diphtheritic anti-toxin. That in accordance with
the suggestion of the Local Government Board, the arrangements
which may be made for the supply of diphtheria antitoxin
should be brought to the knowledge of all medical
practitioners in the Borough, and that at the same time
emphasis be laid upon the importance of prompt treatment
with anti-toxin, and of the saving of life which may thereby
be effected."
During 1910 only two bottles of anti-toxin, of 2,000 units
each, were issued to medical practitioners in the Borough under
this order.
Typhoid or Enteric Fever.—The number of cases of enteric
fever_notified during 1910 was 64, but of these six were afterwards
found not to be suffering from this disease, thus reducing the
genuine cases to 58. This is an increase of six cases over the number
of genuine cases [notified during] the previous year. The attack