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In all these circumstances I have no hesitation in recommending
that a supply of antitoxin be kept at the Town Hall, where it could be
obtained during the day, and that another supply should be kept at the Great
Northern Hospital where Mr. Glenton-Kerr, the Secretary, assures me they will
be pleased to store it, if supplied to them, for the use of medical men requiring
it during the night, and for that matter during the day, for it would save the
practitioners in the north of the borough the long journey to the Town Hall.
If you entertain these proposals, as I am certain you will, a circular letter
will be sent, together with a copy of this report, to each of the medical men
practising in Islington, so that they may fully understand the reasons which
have induced you to keep the supply, the cost of which will be probably about
£30 per annum.
The results must be beneficial, and I anticipate that in the course of time
the fatality from this dreadful disease, which is now fairly stationary at 10 per
cent., will be reduced to at least 5 per cent., if not less, if the remedy be
(???) used, an achievement which would redound still further to the
credit of the modern scientific method of the treatment of the disease.
I am,
Your faithful servant,
Medical Officer of Health.
Town Hall.
Islington, N.
19th December, 1910.