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appreciated. Every practitioner has been kept supplied during
the year with such an outfit, and has thus had at his disposal the
means of procuring a bacteriological diagnosis of Diphtheria, Enteric
Fever, and Consumption.

During the year Diphtheria has been exceptionally prevalent in
the Borough, and serious outbreaks have occurred amongst the
scholars attending the St. Mary's School, Barn Street, and the
Oldfield Road Board School. In connection with these school cases,
the Educational Authority has taken a very proper action in excluding
previous sufferers from the disease from re-attendance at school
until the absence of the germ has been demonstrated by bacteriological
examination of material taken from the child's throat. In cases
where the parents are too poor to be able to pay for a medical
attendant, they have been informed that the Medical Officer of Health
will arrange for this examination, and, as a result, I have been called
upon to deal with several such children.
In this connection the London County Council, in July, adopted
the following report and resolution submitted by their Education
Committee:
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