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Help has been given during" the year as follows:—
Sent to Sanatoria or Special Hospitals 41
Schools of Recovery 31
Convalescent Homes 119
Boarded out 2
Provided with surgical appliances 31
Visiting and advice on behalf of hospitals
and loan of invalid carriages 23
Food and Clothing Grants 17
LABORATORY WORK.
2,163 (2,302 in 1928) microscopical examinations, of bacterial
cultures from "swabs," submitted for the purpose of identifying
the presence or absence of diphtheria bacilli, were undertaken at
the Town Hall Laboratory and 391 at the Isolation Hospital
Laboratory during the year 1929.
Of this number 446 (456 in 1928) gave positive results : the
comparative percentages of positive results being 19.8 per cent, in
1928 and 20.5 per cent, in 1929.
The subjoined analysis is intended to show the sources from
which the "swabs" were submitted for bacteriological diagnosis
together with the results of the subsequent examination in each
case:—
A. "Swabs" submitted by General and Hospital Practitioners,
B. "Swabs" submitted from the Maternity and Child Welfare
Clinics.
C. "Swabs," from School Children, submitted by the
School Medical Service (see also the report of the School Medical
Officer—6. Infectious Diseases):—