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SECTION 6.
LABORATORY WORK.
The long-standing arrangement with the Bacteriological
Department of the Seamen's Hospital has been in force throughout
the year, whereby that Institution carried out all necessary pathological
and bacteriological work for this Department, other than
under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, and in this connection
3,232 specimens have been examined for Diphtheria, 4 for Typhoid
Fever, 439 for Tuberculosis, and 21 for other various conditions.
Fuller details respecting results of the examinations of these
specimens will be found under the different headings of the individual
diseases.
Ninety tubes of Diphtheria Antitoxin, containing a total of
180,000 units of serum, have been supplied during the year to Medical
Practitioners for the treatment of patients suffering from this
disease.
List of Adoptive Acts, By-Laws and Local Regulations
Relating to the Public Health, in Foece in the District,
with Date of Adoption.
By-Laws made under Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
Sec. 16 (1).
By-Laws made under Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
Sec. 16 (2).
By-Laws made under Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
Sec. 39 (1).
By-Laws made under Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
Sec. 39 (2).
By-Laws made under Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
Sec. 50.
By-Laws made under Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
Sec. 94.
By-Laws made under Metropolis Local Management Act,
1855, Sec. 202 (Plans).
By-Laws made under Metropolis Local Management Act,
1855, Sec. 202 (Drainage).
By-Laws made under London County Council (General
Powers) Act, 1903, Sec. 54.
Provisions of L.C.C. (General Powers) Act, 1902, as to Ice
Creams.
Regulations under Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops Orders,
1885 and 1886.
Further particulars are given under Powers and Duties of the
Public Health Committee on page 1.