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(b) That in any case where an injection of the Diphtheria
Anti-toxin is necessary for curative or preventive purposes,
and the patient or the person responsible for his maintenance
is unable to pay the fee of a medical practitioner for making
such injection, a fee of 2s. 6d. per injection be paid by the
Council to such medical practitioner subject to an account
being rendered to the Council in a form to be prescribed,
and to the account being accompanied by a statement in
writing by the patient or the person responsible for his
maintenance, that he is unable to pay the fee."
The recommendations of the Health Committee were duly
approved by the Council, and the following letter was directed
by the Medical Officer of Health to the several medical
practitioners in the district informing them of the arrangements
made:—
Health Department,
Council House,
Hounslow.
November 10th, 1910.
Dear Sib,
Control of Diphtheria.
I beg to inform you that the Health Committee had
before them at their last meeting, a report from their Medical
Officer of Health upon the importance of the use of
Diphtheria Anti toxin as a preventive and curative measure
in the control of Diphtheria. They were advised that in a
certain number of cases the prompt injection of Diphtheria
Anti-toxin may prevent the development of the disease
in a person who has been exposed to its attack. The
Committee view the subject with so much importance
from the point of view of reducing the mortality from and
preventing the spread of Diphtheria that they have adopted
the following rules with regard to the supply and use of
Diphtheria Anti-toxin, and they trust you will co-operate with
them in their desire to lessen the risks attendant upon this
disease.