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SMALL POX.
No cases of small pox were notified. Some notices of
contacts were received. These were kept under observation.
CHICKEN POX.
This was made notifiable on the 28th of October, 1924,
for six months, and at the end of this time it was extended
for a further six months.
SMALL POX HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION.
Extract from the Report of the March Meeting, 1924.
A letter was read from the Ministry of Health, enclosing
draft of a Provisional Order, which it is proposed to
issue for altering certain Confirming Acts, relating to the
Middlesex Joint Hospital District, so as to include the
Urban District of Teddington.
AMBULANCE FACILITIES.
A motor ambulance is kept at the Council's fire station,
and is available for the use of residents.
Cases of infectious diseases are removed in the
Ambulances belonging to the Isolation Hospitals.
LABORATORY WORK.
The Council provide for the free bacteriological examination
of throat swabs, and for the free supply of antitoxin
in necessitous cases.
Provision is also made for the examination of sputum.
The laboratory work is done by the Royal Institute of Public
Health.

Disinfection is carried out with bacterol according to
the special bacterol method.
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