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INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
The year 1925 has been an extremely satisfactory one from
the point of view of incidence of Infectious Disease, with the
exception of an outbreak of Paratyphoid Fever which occurred
during the months of August, September and October.
The Council, while recognising that the prevention of all
diseases is a material factor in raising the general standard of
health in the District, is necessarily concerned in the early diagnosis
or many diseases. Such early recognition is primarily of the
greatest importance to the patient ; but it is also, of course, of
importance to those brought in contact with the sufferer, and
therefore to the public at large. Arrangements have existed for
many years whereby the medical practitioner can secure assistance
for making an early diagnosis in suspicious or doubtful cases of
such diseases as Diphtheria and Tuberculosis, by having swabs
and sputum examined at the Wandle Valley Isolation Hospital,
Beddington Corner, free of all cost. Special outfits for collecting
such specimens for examination are also provided. Antitoxin, for
use in suspected cases of diphtheria or suspicious throat illness, is
also provided free of cost to the Medical Practitioner for his or
her use pending the receipt of the result of the bacteriological
examination.