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OFFICE-WORK. In addition to the daily routine of the office, with its necessarily considerable amount of correspondence and numerous applications for information on a great variety of matters, 520 notices in regard to cases of infectious diseases have been sent to local authorities, 76 orders in duplicate have been made out for the admission of persons to the Hospital for Infectious Diseases, and 922 tubes of vaccine lymph have been distributed to medical practitioners and public vaccinators. -Nine medical and physical examinations were made on behalf of the Post Office Department. ■Fifty-four applications were received for admission to the Government Sanatorium at Cambridge, and the needful examinations and inquiries made in each case. INSPECTORIAL^STAFF. Mr. R. Grieve took up the duties of an Inspector here in June last. I have assigned to him the investigation of infectious-disease outbreaks in and around Auckland, and the general sanitary inspection of the same area. He is a painstaking and careful officer, and has already amply shown his ability to deal with the work of this important centre. Inspector Winstanley takes the remainder of the district, and has accomplished his work in the manner favourably referred to in former reports. LABORATORY.

The following is a record concerning specimens submitted to this office for bacteriological and other examination :—

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Date. Specimen. Suspected Condition. Result of Examination, or Disposal. 1905. ipril 1 1 1 4 10 Sβ day 1 ,, 5 10 10 16 16 20 26 29 29 30 31 r une 5 6 14 Iβ n 28 fuly 2 21 22 26 25 31 iug. 6 8 10 18 22 23 24 24 Sept. 6 7 8 11 13 13 15 15 15 19 19 19 21 25 27 27 27 Testicle Appendix Ovarian mass Smear Head of cat Smear Intestinal casts Sputum Smear Urine Sputum Urine Sputum .. >> Smear Faecal matter Smear Urine Sputum Growth ej; palm of hand Mass ex cervix uteri Sputum Swab Sputum General Gonorrheal Phosphorous poisoning Goiiorrhoeal Tubercular Gonorrheal Sugar and albumen Tubercular >> • • Sugar and albumen Tubercular Gonorrheal Blood Gonorrheal Tubercular Epithelioma Tubercular Diphtheritic Tubercular Wellington report. Negative. Abundant T.B. Negative. Albumen, nil; sugar present. Negative. >> Positive. Negative. »» Wellington report. Negative. >» Positive. Blood-smear Mass expectorated Sputum Negative. Typhoid Wellington report. Positive. Tubercular Swab Sputum .. Negative. Positive. Negative. Diphtheritic Tubercular Positive. »> • • ii >» • • Negative. Positive. Negative. >) ■ • Positive. Wellington report: Carcinoma. Positive. Negative. Wellington report. Section testicle Sputum Malignancy Tubercular Cyst from lung Cyst from uterus .. Sputum Hydatids General Tubercular Negative. »> Suppuration from mouth Tumour Sputum Actinomycosis Sarcoma Tubercular Wellington report. Negative.