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In view of the loss, inconvenience and suffering occasioned by the
erroneous notification and removal of patients not suffering from the
disease notified, the Public Health and Housing Committee were of
opinion it is desirable antitoxin should be supplied, at the discretion of
the Medical Officer of Health, for use pending receipt of results of
bacteriological examinations in cases where such provision cannot otherwise
be made. The Committee were assured no ill results follow from
injections of the antitoxin in cases which are subsequently found to be
not true cases of diphtheria, and recommended the Council—
That the Medical Officer of Health be authorised to supply, at his
discretion, diphtheria antitoxin, free of charge, to medical practitioners
for use in cases of suspected diphtheria in the Borough,
pending receipt of result of bacteriological examinations, or where
patients are too ill to be removed.
Upon the presentation of the report of the Public Health and Housing
Committee containing this recommendation at the meeting of the Council
on the 23rd September, an amendment was moved and seconded—To omit
all words after the words "That the" in order to insert there these words:—
"Council declines to enter into competition on an unfair basis with
purveyors of drugs and related preparations, and emphatically refuses to
relieve medical practitioners of their natural responsibilities."
The amendment was put and declared carried and adopted, also as a
substantive motion.