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Arrangements for the free examination of specimens forwarded
by medical practitioners in the district have been in
force for the past nine or ten years, and the increasing
number of specimens sent to the Lister Institute each year for
bacteriological examination proves the value which is set on
this aid to diagnosis in doubtful cases.
For several years a supply of anti-diphtheritic serum has
been kept at the Public Health Offices, and doctors have been
supplied with the same at cost price. In December, 1905,
the Council agreed that the serum should be given free of
charge when required for use in a case where the means of the
patient did not enable him to pay for it. Advantage of this
was taken in 9 instances during the past year, compared with
15 in 1907.