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Antidiphtheritic serum is supplied free of charge to Medical
Practitioners practising in the district. It is obtainable at
the Public Health Department and from certain Chemists and
(at any time, day or night) at the Isolation Hospital and the
Fire Station.
The measures taken to control infectious diseases are,
generally speaking, isolation, disinfection and supervision
of contacts. Visits are paid to the home and enquiries made
as to the health of other persons living in the house. When
it appears to be called for, these contacts are examined by the
Medical Officer of Health or the notifying practitioner is consulted.
As a rule no action is taken as. regards contacts
other than those living in the same house, but outside contacts
are examined on occasion, when such action appears to
be called for.
Contacts attending school are excluded on the general
lines of the memorandum of the Ministry of Health and the
Board of Education, though the rules followed are not identical
with those recommended in that memorandum. This is
more fully dealt with in my report on the School Medical
Service,