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include doubtful cases belonging to this District that attended
Guy's Hospital, where a bacteriological examination of material
from all doubtful cases is made.
Permission was also given for medical practitioners to
have the opportunity of an examination made at Guy's
Hospital of a few drops of blood from doubtful cases of
typhoid fever. One such case was by this means considered
not to be typhoid fever.
The Mortuary has been thoroughly repaired and painted.
A satisfactory site for a new Mortuary has not yet been
found.
The sanitary bedding trucks have been repaired, and
better accommodation for them provided at the Board's Wharf.
A new public urinal has been erected in Joiner Street on
the site of the old one, which was frequently a source of
nuisance.
Several other urinals have had or are having the Board's
attention.
The Committee appointed by the Home Secretary to
make inquiry into and report on the conditions of work as
they affect the health of the operatives in the industries in
which anthrax is alleged to occur, issued its report last year.
As there is a very large trade in this District in hides and
skins, I may say that the Committee recommend that the
processes of unpacking, sorting, and packing, and all the incidental
handling previous to immersion in lime pits, of
Russian, Chinese, and dry East Indian hides and skins (and