20 L—1895. HEALTH DEPARTMENT. LABORATORY, White, Centre, Elm and Franklin Streets. DIPHTHERIA AND TUBERCULOSIS. DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING CULTURES IN CASES OF SUSPECTED DIPHTHERIA. The patient should be placed in a good light, and, if a child, properly held. In cases where it is possible to get a good view of the throat, depress the tongue and rub the cotton swab gently, but freely, against any visible exudate. In other cases, including those in which the exudate is confined to the larynx, avoiding the tongue, pass the swab far back, and rub it freely against the mucous membrane of the pharynx and tonsils. Without laying the swab down, withdraw the cotton plug from the culture tube, insert the swab, and rub that portion of it which has touched the exudate gently but thoroughly back and forth over the surface of the blood serum. Do not push the swab into the blood serum, nor break the surface in any way. Then replace the swab in its own tube, plug both tubes, put them in the box, and return the culture outfit at once to the station from which it was obtained. A report will be forwarded the following morning by mail, or can be obtained by telephone, after 12 noon. DIRECTIONS FOR COLLECTION OF SPUTUM FOR BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION IN PULMONARY TUBERCULOSA Sputum should be collected only in clean, wide-mouthed, well-stoppered bottles, with a capacity of at least ounces. Care should be taken that bronchial and not pharyngeal secretion is collected, and the expectoratio charged early in the morning is to be preferred. If the expectoration is scanty, the entire amount discharged in twenty- four hours should be collected. The data asked in the accompanying blank should be carefully filled out in every case. Collections of diphtheria tubes and sputa bottles are made daily at 4 P. M. on the East and West sides of the City. Tubes or bottles left at any of the stations after these hours are not collected until the following day. EAST SIDE. 138th Street and 3d Avenue Hartvigson 126th Street and Madison Avenue Marsh 116th Street and 3d Avenue Engelhardt 115th Street and 1st Avenue Neu 110th Street and Madison Avenue Barnes 105th Street and 3d Avenue Aaronstam S7th Street and 2d Avenue Prohen 86th Street and Park Avenue Falkenreck 76th Street and Lexington Avenue Smith 67th Street and 3d Avenue Hoykendorff 59th Street and Lexington Avenue Nauheim 52d Street and 3d Avenue Hohenthal 50th Street and 1st Avenue Edlich 45th Street and 3d Avenue Goetting 42d Street and Park Avenue Schoonmaker 41st Street and Park Avenue Van Horn & Ellison 29th Sreet and 4th Avenue Bagoe 23d Street and 4th Avenue Kalish 2th Street and 2d Avenue Huefmeyer 1th Street and Third Avenue Bendiner & Schlesinger iring Street and Bowery Minor 1 Street and Eldridge Street Wiistrow CULTURE OUTFITS AND BOTTLES FOB SPUTA CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE FOLLOWING STATIONS FREE OF COST. WEST SIDE. 155th Street and 10th Avenue Rieger 132d Street and Seventh Avenue Sax 125th Street and 8th Avenue Spear 122d Street and 7th Avenue Heinemann 95th Street and Amsterdam Avenue Fels 88th Street and Columbus Avenue Kleinschmidt 82d Street and Columbus Avenue Ambler 72d Street and Columbus Avenue Cassabeer 7 0th Street and Boulevard Kerley 411 West 59th Street Dougherty 57th Street and 6th Avenue Galpin 47th Street and 5th Avenue Caswell. Massey & Co. 46th Street and 5th Avenue Bartlett & Liell 36th Street and 9th Avenue Rupp 328 5th Avenue Daggett & Ramsdell 29th Street and 5th Avenue Frazer 22d Street and 9th Avenue Smith 157 8th Avenue Lins 148 8th Avenue .. Utley 12th Street and 6th Avenue Ridgeway 8th Street and 6th Avenue Bigelow 463 Hudson Street O’Neill 362 Hudson Street Knapp 172Varick Street Jennsen