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LABORATORY WORK.
There has been no change in the arrangements for
laboratory work since the last report.
The Council provides Anti-toxin free for cases of Diphtheria
and a nurse to inject it if desired. The diagnosis of
Diphtheritic-croup and Diphtheria is often doubtful for a
time, meanwhile no harm can come from a dose of Antitoxin.
The importance of the early treatment of diphtheria
by anti-toxin cannot be too strongly stressed. The patient's
prospect of recovery is thereby greatly enhanced and there
is definitely less liability to nerve and heart complications.
When the Nurse is on holiday, practitioners are requested to
take their own swabs.
The Ministry of Health has sanctioned the supply
of anti-tetanic serum by the Council to local practitioners.
Anti-diphtheric and anti-tetanic serum can always be
obtained at the Health Department or directly from the
Medical Officer of Health. Diphtheria carriers before leaving
the Sanatorium are tested out for virulence.
The Council affords facilities to all medical men
practising in the district for the examination of pathological
specimens and the work is carried out very satisfactorily
bv the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine

This includes a Diphtheria carrier who was tested out
for virulence.
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