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10
NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE.
"Give particulars of any important points in which the
work of the local authority is related to or is administered in
co-operation with this service."
It is not possible to furnish any information under this
heading, because this service is administered by the Middlesex
Insurance Committee, and the work of medical attendance on
insured persons does not in any way overlap any of the health
activities of the Borough Council. If and when the medical
benefits of National Health Insurance are extended to the
dependants of the insured persons, the position will be entirely
different. Such extension would result in overlapping between
Maternity and Child Welfare and 'School Medical Services of
the Council and the domiciliary medical attendance on the
families by the insurance practitioners. The difficulty seems
sufficiently remote in time not to require efforts for its solution
at the moment.
LABORATORY FACILITIES.
Specimens for bacteriological examination are dealt with in
the laboratory of the Isolation Hospital, and foods are submitted
for analysis to the Middlesex County Council.
The specimens examined in the laboratory during 1930 were
as follows: —
Negative. Positive.
Diphtheria specimens 1,043 90
Sputum ,, 183 22
Enteric ,, 4 1
Other ,, 18 1
1,248 114
Total 1,362