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Bacteriological Laboratory.
During the year 240 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; 1910, 270.

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.
Below is shown the number of rooms and articles disinfected by the
Staff of the Department. The premises included 16 rooms in 5 schools ;
11 vehicles were also disinfected. In 23 cases of infectious disease
treated at home, the laundry linen was collected weekly and disinfected.
Disinfection was carried out after all cases of the notifiable diseases,
except as regards erysipelas (in which disinfection was performed in
24 instances, when the circumstances of the case required it), and also
after 133 cases of measles, 6 chicken-pox, 26 cancer, 5 influenza,
7 whooping cough, and 234 phthisis. In 44 instances the premises, &c.,
were disinfected privately (35 of these being cases of phthisis).
Shelters.—One person was admitted to the temporary shelter at
Horseferry Boad while disinfection was being carried out.
The following table gives a comparative statement of the above
work during the past seven years:—