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3. That the arrangements with respect to the keeping,
tion and use of the Diphtheria Anti-toxin shall be made
in accordance with the advice of the Medical Officer of
Health;
4. That the Medical Officer of Health shall be assigned the
duty of the execution of the order;
5. That the Council are authorised to pay to the Medical
Officer of Health a reasonable compensation for all action
taken by him in the execution of the Order.
Diphtheria Anti-toxin has been provided by this Council
for a number of years, and the arrangements now in force
and approved by the Health Committee are as follows
1. Diphtheria Anti-toxin is stored in a cool place in the
Council House.
2. When a medical practitioner makes application personally
or in writing for the Anti-toxin it is supplied to him for
curative or preventive injection.
3. A form is sent to the medical practitioner to sign if the
patients for whom the Anti-toxin was required are not
in a position to pay for the same. If the patient is
removed to the Isolation Hospital no charge is made.
4. The charge made is the cost charge (2/6 per 2000 units).
These rules do not, I think, require to be altered. But
in connection with medical assistance as included in the Order,
I would suggest that payment for medical assistance be made
only in those cases in which the patients are not in a position
to pay for Anti-toxin. A fee of 2/6 per injection should be
allowed, the account to be rendered on a prescribed form by
the medical practitioner and to be accompanied by a statement
in writing from the patient or his representative that he is
unable to pay."
"Resolved to recommend,
(a) That the rules now in force with regard to the
provision and supply of Diphtheria Anti-toxin be approved and
be confirmed.