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4. Leaflets of instruction are left at the house.
5. Reference to appropriate agencies of cases of unemployment
or destitution.
6. Advanced cases are advised to go to the Infirmary.
7. Sanitary survey of premises with correction of defects.
8. Measures in connection with the Inspection of meat
and milk.
9. General Sanitary measures.
10. Free bacteriological examination of sputum at the
Public Health Department. In 1910, the number of
specimens examined was 33, of which 10 were positive.
11. Disinfection after notification and death.
12. Treatment at the Infirmary, Archway Road.
13. Re-visits.
In addition to the above, the Metropolitan Asylums Board have
allocated be Is at the Children's Infirmary, Carshalton, for the
treatment of phthisis in poor law children, and have reserved
Millfield, Rustington, for early cases of phthisis in such children.
Forms of admission are supplied to the various Metropolitan
Boards of Guardians -admission can be obtained only on the
written order of the Clerk to the Guardians. These beds, of
course, are for the whole of London,
Measures in other London Boroughs.—Enquiry was
made from the other Metropolitan Boroughs as to the steps taken
to deal with cases of phthisis.
The following is a summary of the replies : —
Sanatorium Treatment.—Four Boroughs retained beds in
sanatoria—three at the Maitland Sanatorium, Peppard Common,
near Reading, and one at the Fairlight Sanatorium, Hastings.
The charges ranged from £1 per bed per week to £1 10s. Od.
per week. Payment was stated in each case to be made out of the
rates. The families of the patients during their absence were said