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RINGWORM.
A somewhat smaller number (121) of patients
were treated during the year as out-patients for
ringworm and diseases of a like nature.
In 1908 there were 200 patients.
These patients attend twice a week, they are
then examined and advised as to the method of
treatment to be adopted.
BACTERIOLOGY.
During the year 783 pathological specimens
were examined. These specimens are mostly of
the nature of throat and nose swabbings, but they
also include sputum, blood, and various discharges,
&c., &c., which are sent in for bacteriological
examination and report.
A large proportion of these specimens were
taken from patients in hospital, but a considerable
number, i.e., 345, were sent in by medical practitioners
in the district. The work entailed in connection
with the examination of all these specimens
is necessarily very great, and at times, when the
wards are full and so much other work is on
hand, it is a matter of extreme difficulty to get it
done expeditiously.