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BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS.
In consequence of a suggestion by a member of
the Council that facilities should be given for a
Bacteriological Examination of the throat in doubtful
cases, the Council supplied the necessary apparatus
at the Hospital, and 1 have found it of the greatest
assistance. Several specimens have been forwarded
and where the examination has proved the existence
of the Bacillus the case has been put under treatment
at once, the early treatment being most important. I
have also found it of great assistance in cases that
have been under treatment in the Hospital in deciding
whether the throat is free and the patient ready for
discharge.
Diarrhœa.—There was the usual prevalence of
this illness during the hot weather of the Summer,
but not quite to the extent of the year before. The
return of hot weather in September caused the continuance
of the illness to a later date than usual, the
severity having much mitigated at the end of
August.
Measles, Whooping Cough, Chicken Pox and
Mumps.—As these diseases, although of a very highly
infectious nature at the onset of the illness, are not
required to be notified, and yet early information of
them being very desirable, I endeavoured to make
use of the Education Code to obtain that object.
Section 101* of the Code refers to "epidemic grant"
as follows.—