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(14), and Mottingham Recreation Ground (10). At the other end
of the scale only one item was reported from Cotmandene Crescent,
St. Paul's Cray.
LABORATORY SERVICE.
The marked lessening in the incidence of dysentoy, food poisoning
and other intestinal .infections has reduced the number of
specimens from patients and of suspected food stuffs, sent for bacterial
examiation.
Routine specimens are submitted to the Public Health Laboratory
at Maidstone, except when cases involve patients in local
hospitals, or contacts of such patients when it is preferable to have
the examination carried out in the pathological laboratories attached
to the hospitals concerned.
In this connection I am particularly indebted to Dr. Herman,
Consultant Pathologist at Queen Mary's Hospital, for the assistance
rendered.

NATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT, 1948.
Removal of Persons living in Insanitary Conditions.
Section 47 of the National Assistance Act, 1948, enables the
local authority to arrange, in certain circumstances, for the compulsory
removal of aged or infirm persons who are in need of care and
attention, and unable to provide for themselves. Only two such
cases came to notice in 1961. In one of these the welfare services
of the County Council were able to assist. In the other case, it
was necessary to obtain a Magistrate's Order before it was possible
to persuade an elderly lady, living alone, to move to accommodation
in an Old Persons' Home.