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sent to the Care Committee Secretaries. The system of comparing the
School Medical lists with the Health index before further action was
taken by the Care Committee Visitor has been proved to be a good one.
Overlapping of Visitors is prevented and the visit for the baby and the
school child has been successfully combined.
Bacteriological Laboratory.
During the year 270 examinations have been made by Dr. J. M.
Bernstein, at the Westminster Hospital Medical School, at a cost of
£36 4s. 9d., with the subjoined results.
The number of examinations in previous years were: 1902, 251;
1903, 181; 1904, 75; 1905, 132; 1906, 180; 1907, 155; 1908, 175;
1909, 245.

More advantage has been taken to obtain information as to the
presence of the tubercle bacillus than in previous years.
In addition to those mentioned above, many medical men and
hospitals obtain reports on their cases from private or hospital
laboratories.
Disinfection.
New Disinfecting Station and Staff Dwellings.—When the City
was incorporated, four of the constituent authorities possessed disinfecting
stations, while one did the work through a contractor.
Considerable inconvenience was experienced in carrying on the work
of disinfecting under such circumstances, and the Council in their first
year of office had under consideration the erection of a central station.
As the bulk of the work was found to come from the southern part of
the City, it was evident that a site should be selected there.
Several schemes have been considered in connection with the various
properties belonging to the City, but none of them were deemed
satisfactory. In 1904 the County Council acquired the Deuzell Street
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