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An arrangement has now been entered into with the Finchley,
Hornsey, Wood Green, and Friern Barnet Joint Hospital Committee,
for the provision of accommodation for cases of infectious disease
occurring in Tottenham, on the following terms:—
(i) that the charge be at the rate of £1 1s. 0d. per patient per
day, plus specialists fees (if any);
(ii) that proper ambulance charges in regard to the conveyance
of patients be reimbursed;
(iii) that the above charges be subject to review at the
expiration of one year.
Laboratory Facilities.
Since 1903 the examination of bacteriological specimens has
been undertaken mainly in the laboratory situated at the Town
Hall. With the establishment of a National Laboratory Service
this arrangement came to an end on the 28th January, 1946.
The new service first came into being as an emergency
organisation at the beginning of the war, and was set up by the
Medical Research Council, at the request of the Government, to
provide for certain parts of the Country which had no satisfactory
facilities for Public Health bacteriology. The service is now being
continued on a permanent basis in the building occupied by the
Government Lymph Establishment at Colindale, Hendon, with the
Medical Research Council responsible for its direction at least during
an initial period of five years.
The intention is that the service shall undertake work required
by Medical Officers of Health in relation to the diagnosis, prevention
and control of infectious disease, and the following details are
submitted of the examinations carried out during the period
February to December, 1946:—
*Throat/Nose Swabs.—Diphtheria Bacilli, 62; Haemolytic
Streptococci, 385; Vincent's Angina, 24; Negative, 1,104:
Total, 1,537.
Faeces.—Shigella, 1; Salmonella, Nil; Protozoa, Nil;
Negative, 8: Total, 9.
Sputum.—T.B. Smear, 6; Other Organisms, 1; Negative,
59: Total, 66.
Pertussis.—Cough Plate, 2; Postnasal Swab, 1; Negative,
10: Total, 13.
Milk.—Pasteurized, 3; Other, 4; Ice Cream, 3: Total, 10.