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The work carried out by the Counties' Laboratories of Qeen
Victoria Street is of a very high order, but I do wish that some
arrangements could be made, either for getting swabs quickly to
Queen Victoria Street over the week-end, or, alternatively, for these
swabs to be examined in Barking.
As and when we have a laboratory at the new hospital at
Upney, no doubt you will entertain the possibility of undertaking
a part at least of this work, with the particular object of avoiding
the present difficulty we have of getting swabs to Queen Victoria
Street during the week-end.
It is to be noted that there is no difficulty when once the swabs
are at the laboratory, because they are examined forthwith, and
the reports can be sent through by telephone.
15.—LEGISLATION RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH.
(a) Local Acts:
Barking Town Wharf Act, 1893.
Barking Parish Act, 1888.
(b) General Adoptive Acts :
Batns and Wash-houses Acts, 1847, etc.
Infectious Diseases (Notification; Act, 1889.
Public Health Act (Amendment Act), 1890, Parts 2,
3 and 5.
Public Health Act (Amendment Act), 1907, Parts 2,
3, 4, 5, 6 and 9, and Section 95 of Part 10.
Local Government and other Officers' Superannuation
Act, 1922.
Public Health Act, 1925.
(c) Regulations:
Regulations as to Cemetery, 1902.
Barking Town (Pneumonia) Regulations, 1924.