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It must not be supposed that the Laboratory would enable
important bacteriological examinations of milk and water
to be carried out, as in these cases inoculation experiments
are required, and the Vestry would not be likely to obtain
the necessary vivisecting licence from the Home Office.
In connection with Diphtheria, Typhoid Fever, and Tuberculosis,
however, I am of opinion that much good would
accrue from such a Laboratory being provided at the
Wanless Road Disinfecting Station, or elsewhere in the
Parish. It is clear that such a Laboratory would be most
useful for Lambeth if situated in Lambeth Parish, and under
the immediate control of your Officer of Health, provided
too much of such Officer's time was not taken up therewith,
and such an arrangement would be certainly much cheaper
than the method suggested by the London County Council
in their letter of 30th July, "of establishing a Laboratory
or making such other arrangements as would enable
Medical Officers of Health and Medical Practitioners in
London to obtain the examination of pathological matter at
the expense of the County; and of applying to Parliament
for such powers."
Report on MEASLES PREVENTION.
(Presented to the Vestry June 23rd, 1898).
Measles is a highly infectious disease, which attacks
chiefly young children under the age of 5 years, amongst
whom it causes a high rate of mortality. In Lambeth
during the last 10 years, there have been registered 1541
deaths from Measles, i.e., more than half of the total deaths
from all the notifiable infectious diseases taken together,
as the following table shows:—