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notified. Under the head of hospitals are reckoned such institutions
as the infirmaries, it consequently amounts to this, that
an epidemic of diphtheria might be very prevalent in the
St. Saviour's Infirmary which would be officially absolutely
unknown to me, the notification of such persons as they relate
to, having been removed from St. Saviour's, would be sent to
the Medical Officer for that district; similarly if a number of
persons who came from the country are removed to the Infirmary
the cases would have to be reported to the Medical Officer
for that district whence they came, and not to me. In consequence
of this, I have made arrangements that such cases
should be notified to me, and that the Vestry should themselves
defray the expense of such notification without asking for the
amount to be returned by the Metropolitan Asylums Board, as
would be done in the case of any other certificate.
List of Houses, Bedding, Clothing and Miscellaneous Articles
Disinfected by A. Yates and Staff, from January 1st, 1899,
to January 1st, 1900.
Houses.
Lots including
Beds.
Blankets.
Sheets.
Pillows.
Cushions.
Mattresses.
Palliasses.
Quilts.
Clothing.
Carpets.
Sundries.
Bolsters.
3294
11890
7640
13850
6313
3675
5240
2456
8315
30000
2620
60000
17580
16070
Articles destroyed in Cremator by Owner's Orders—lnnumerable.
The work of the Bacteriological Department started in
real earnest on January Ist, 1899, it being carried on as an
independent department over which I have no control. The
material is sent direct from the medical men to the Bacteriologist,
and I am entirely dependent on the courtesy of Dr.
Bousfield for letting me know of any specimens which have
been so sent. To my mind it would be much better to have
a counterfoil which should be sent to me by the medical man at
the same time as the material is sent to the Bacteriologist.
This would keep me in touch with the suspicious cases of sore
XV.