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Full details of bacteriological examinations during the year
will be found in the section of this Report dealing with infectious
diseases.
The bacteriological examination of foodstuffs is also carried
out at these laboratories as required.
A minimum of 900 samples are purchased annually under the
Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928, and submitted for
chemical analysis to the Joint Public Analysts, Leo Taylor, Esq.,
F.I.C., and D. T. Lucke, Esq., B.Sc., A.I.C.
Particulars of the samples collected during the year, together
with the results of the analyses made, appear on page 97.
INSULIN TREATMENT OF DIABETES.
During the year under review the Ministry of Health agreed
to the extension, for a further period of twelve months, of the
arrangements made under Section 77 of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891, for the provision of insulin for the treatment of poor
persons suffering from diabetes.
Under the arrangements made by the Council, applications for
the supply of insulin without cost to the patients are submitted to
the Public Health Committee upon receipt of a recommendation
from a physician of any hospital.
The cost of the insulin is Is. Od. per 100 units.
At the end of the year two patients were being treated at the
expense of the Council.
LEGISLATION IN FORCE IN THE AREA.
No addition was made in 1934 to the local legislation relating
to the public health.
HEALTH EDUCATION.
Attention was given by the Maternity and Child Welfare
Committee during the year to the question of the extension of the
educational instruction of mothers attending the Ante.Natal and
Infant Welfare Centres and of the public generally and various
suggestions, such as the giving of health talks by means of
gramophone records, have been considered.