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V.—Underground Conveniences.
On November 1st, 1896, the Vestry transferred to the Sanitary
Department all the Underground Conveniences in the Parish,
6 in all, together with a staff of 15 attendants, 12 permanent and
3 temporary.
Each Convenience is under the care of a Sanitary Inspector,
who visits it regularly not less often than twice weekly. Time
sheets are kept and check-books in connection with the distribution
of towels, dusters, and stores generally. The administration
of these Underground Conveniences bv the Sanitary Committee
is most satisfactory.
The attendants are provided with uniforms yearly.
The Brixton Convenience was opened on March 16th, 1896,
and the Kennington Cross Convenience on September 5th, 1898,
and the Vestry has recently ordered a loan to be applied for in
connection with a new Underground Convenience at Binfield
Road, Stockwell.
VI.—Special Technical Matters.
(a) Bacteriological Examination in Infectious Diseases.
A Bacteriological Laboratory was fitted up at Wanless Road
at the beginning of 1899, and has been in constant use for about
18 months, during which time over 900 specimens have been
examined by the Medical Officer in connection with doubtful
cases of typhoid, diphtheria, tuberculosis, etc. The Laboratory
is much appreciated and much used by the Medical Practitioners,
who have been provided, free of cost, with the necessary outfits
in which to send samples of blood, sputum, membranes, and discharges.
Lambeth is the only Metropolitan Parish which possesses a
properly equipped Bacteriological Laboratory of its own.
(b) Tuberculosis and its Prevention.
On December 8th, 1898, the Sanitary Committee brought up a
Special Report which was adopted by the Vestry, and which
contained the following recommendations:—