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in the Bromley Parish had sent a charged box from a patient outside
the district.
"The method of transmission of the boxes from the practitioners
to the Board's Offices, and thence to the Jenner Institute of Preventive
Medicine, has answered very well. If the boxes are received
at the Board's Offices and posted on, so as to arrive at the Jenner
Institute before 6 o'clock p.m., a telegram has been sent about
11 a.m. next day stating the result, and the official certificate has
followed later on.
"By practitioners waiting for the result of the examination before
notifying, the notification fee of 2s. 6d. has been saved in those
cases which have turned out not to be the disease, so that the notification
fee has been practically paid by the Board for the bacteriological
examination.
"I trust that the Committee will recommend the Board to allow
of the continuance of bacteriological examination, as it must be
obvious that parents in a number of instances have been relieved
from any anxiety as to the nature of the complaint, and they have
also not been inconvenienced by having their homes considered as
being infected and necessary to undergo disinfection ; also the breadwinners
have not been kept from work, and children have not been
excluded from school.''
Upon this report the Committee recommended that the system be
adopted throughout the district.
The sending of specimens (swabbings and blood) to the Jenner
Institute of Preventive Medicine commenced on the 4th April. Since
which date the number of specimens forwarded with the results has
been as follows:—
Bacillus Diphtheriae isolated 21
Pseudo Bacillus 5
No result 22
Total number of swabbings sent 48