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BACTERIOLOGICAL DIAGNOSES.
The "diagnosis outfits" supplied by the Council to the medical
practitioners in Stoke Newington are of great service.

Many applications have been made at the offices for tubes of
" antitoxin," which I store for the convenience of local practitioners.
A limited amount of "antitoxin" is supplied free of cost to
those who are judged to be unable to pay for it. The expenditure
on this account is limited to £10 per annum, except in years
of epidemic prevalence of diphtheria.
During the year there were occasions on which there was delay
in securing the removal to hospital of notified cases of Scarlet Fever
and Diphtheria, as these two diseases were exceptionally prevalent
not only in Stoke Newington but in London generally. As soon as
it was realised by the Metropolitan Asylums Board that there would
be difficulty in securing the admittance to hospital of all cases
for whom application was made, the Metropolitan Medical Officers
of Health were asked (in order to secure that those cases which by
virtue of their condition, environment or special circumstances most
urgently needed hospital isolation and treatment, should receive
priority) to select such cases and notify them to the Clerk of the