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attention to it, merely adding that this Authority is
now the owner of two excellent vans, one for the
conveyance of infected "goods" to the disinfecting
chamber, and the other for the return of the " goods"
when purified, and that these are available for, and
are made use of by the conjoined districts, at an
agreed rate of hire. They are kept in sheds on the
Council's premises in Alpha Road.
Diphtheria. —Only a few cases, 10 in number,
were notified and these were spread over the whole
year, there was no sembance of an outbreak and
with few exceptions no known cause for most of
them. These outbreaks we have had from time to
time, as is well known to most of you, and of course
we may have them again, the danger lies mainly
in the spread of the complaint by personal contact
in schools or in the home, and also in its conveyance
by milk or other food, hence the importance of early
recognition of the nature of the throat illness.
From time to time cases are notified that turn out
not to be diphtheria, for it is not by any means of a
nature to be easily recognised in its early stages, but
it is far better to notify early and take precautions
than let the case develop without and possibly spread
to others. I will again mention that this Council
some years ago passed a resolution that any medical
man practising in the District can have a bacteriological
examination made in doubtful cases free of
charge, where the expense cannot otherwise be borne,
by making application to the office of the Sanitary
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