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Diphtheria cannot be checked. As a matter in Preventive Medicine
it is the question of the day, and its great importance demands the
adoption of further measures of coping against the origin and spread
of this disease.
In this disease the spread of the infection (and by consequence
the mortality) are largely concerned with the unfortunate circumstance
that the early diagnosis of the disease from clinical symptoms
is frequently difficult and impossible, and it is therefore highly
desirable that every Sanitary Authority should contrive to make such
arrangements as would provide practitioners with the promptest
possible answer to the problems—Is this a case of Diphtheria ?
Bacteriology alone can furnish the answer in many cases, and the
Diagnosis outfits provided by the Vestry during the year to the medical
practitioners in Stoke Newington have been appreciated. Every
practitioner has been kept supplied with such an outfit and has thus
had at his disposal the means of procuring a bacteriological diagnosis
of both Diphtheria and Typhoid Fever.