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Medical Practitioner
Name
Address
Patient
Name Sex ... Age
Address
Disease Suspected
"The charged boxes upon being received at the Public Health
Department, would be forwarded as soon as possible to the Jenner
Institute of Preventive Medicine, in special shaped envelopes, and
if received at the Institute before 6 p.m., the result would be communicated
by telegram before noon next day. The above is a
general description of what is being carried out now by some Local
Authorities.
"The Jenner Institute of Preventive Medicin1e charges Sanitary
Authorities 2s. 6d. for the examination, 6d. for refitting boxes with
sterilised outfits, and 6d. for the telegram, making 3s. 6d. in all, not
including the one shilling for the box in the first instance.
"In conclusion, the Committee will, no doubt, understand from
statements in the report, the immense benefit which would be
derived, not only to the persons immediately concerned, but to the
public at large, in having diphtheria and typhoid fever cases correctly
and quickly diagnosed.
"Parents in some instances would not be kept from work, children
in a house after notification would not lose their education, and
there would not happen the inconvenience of having the premises
disinfected."
Upon this report the Committee recommended that the Medical
Officer be authorised to arrange experimentally for two months, for
the supply of outfits to Medical Practitioners for doubtful cases of
typhoid fever and diphtheria, and to submit the charged boxes of
secretion from the throat for bacteriological examination.