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The following are the copies of the letters: —
The Vestry of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.
Town Hall,
Charing Cross Road,
W.C.
April, 1899.
Sir,
1 am directed by the Vestry to inform you that they have
recently had under consideration the question of whether it was
desirable that they should make arrangements by which Medical
Practitioners in the District could obtain, without expense to themselves
or their patients, examination by a competent bacteriologist
of material from suspected cases of Diphtheria and Typhoid Fever,
with a view of aiding the diagnosis where the same did not clearly
disclose the disease from which it was anticipated the person was
suffering, and being of opinion that it is of great importance in the
interests of public health that every reasonable facility should be
provided for promptly dealing with even suspected cases of
infectious disease, the Vestry have made arrangements by which, in
all cases where approved by the Medical Officer of Health for this
Parish, they will be enabled to secure an examination of suspected
matter at the Laboratory of the Conjoint Board of the Royal
College of Physicians and Surgeons.
The conditions under which this examination will be made are
as follows:—
The examination will only be made on the written application of
the Medical Practitioner called in to attend on any patient; such
application to contain briefly the particulars of the case and to be
transmitted to the Medical Officer of Health at this address.
If the Medical Officer of Health is satisfied that the case is a
proper one for the Vestry to bear the expense of the examination,
sterilised tubes and swabs will be provided by him, and an order
will be given with which the tubes and swabs should be transmitted
to the Laboratory of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons,
Examination Hall, Victoria Embankment, W.C.
The fee will be paid by the Vestry.
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