Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Heston and Isleworth]
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Diphtheria Anti-toxin is stored at the Council House,
(Telephone 56 Ealing National), 9, The Grove, Spring Grove
(Telephone 166 P.O. Hounslow), 121, Bath Road, Hounslow,
and at 53, Percy Road, Isleworth, and may be had on
application by a medical practitioner either personally or in
writing.
If the person or persons for whom Anti-toxin is obtained
is or are able to pay for the same, the cost charge of the
Anti-toxin will be debited against the medical practitioner
who applies for the Anti-toxin.
If the person or persons for whom the Anti-toxin is
obtained, is or are unable to pay for it or for its injection,
the Council will make no charge for the Anti-toxin used and
will also pay the medical practitioner's fees for injection up
to a charge of half-a-crown (2/6) per injection of 2.000 units.
In the event of any application for Anti-toxin being made,
certain forms, which will be duly forwarded from this office
to the medical practitioner, will require to be signed if the
Anti-toxin is not to be debited to his account.
I am,
Yours faithfully,
George P. Buchan,
Medical Officer of Health.
The following is a fac-simile of the form referred to in the
foregoing letter:—
Heston and Isleworth Urban District Council.
Health Department,
Council House, Hounslow.
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I hereby certify that the Anti-toxin (vial) supplied to me by
the Health Department on the day of 191
was used in the case of:—