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County Council for regulating the conduct of those businesses
in which gut or intestines are manipulated.
The Metropolitan Asylums Board has again been unable
to receive all the cases of scarlet fever and diphtheria that
required to be removed to their hospitals, notwithstanding the
continued efforts of the Managers to keep pace with the
growing demands of the Metropolis.
The Medical Superintendents of the hospitals of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board report that the treatment of
diphtheria by anti-toxic serum has in 1896 given still better
results than in 1895.
The Board kindly consented to pay the expenses of
bacteriological examination of doubtful cases at the
Laboratory of Guy's Hospital. Four such cases were examined
during the last quarter of the year.
Additional duties have recently been imposed upon the
Managers of the Metropolitan Asylums Board by the Local
Government Board for the amelioration of the infectious sick
and insane poor children of the Metropolis. These duties
consist of providing for the care of children:
(a). Suffering from opthalmia or other contagious disease of
the eye.
(b). Suffering from contagious disease of the skin or scalp.
(c). Requiring either special treatment during convalescence or
the benefit of sea-side air.
(d). Who by reason of defect of intellect or physical infirmity
cannot properly be trained in association with children
in ordinary schools; and
(e). Who are ordered by two justices or a magistrate to be
taken under the Industrial Schools Act, 1866, to a workhouse
or an asylum of the district.