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BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS.
The bacteriological examination of clinical material (with the
exception of sputum which is dealt with at the Chest Clinic) and
foodstuffs suspected as being the cause of food poisoning was carried
out by the Public Health Laboratory Service, County Hall, Westminster
Bridge, S.E.1. No charge is made to the Council for these examinations.
During the year 343 examinations were made as follows:—
Description
Disease
Number of
Specimens or
Food Samples
Positive
Results
Faeces Dysentery or
Food Poisoning 272 80
do Paratyphoid Fever 6 Nil
do Thread Worm 1 Nil
Throat Swabs Diphtheria 47 Nil
Nasal Swabs Whooping Cough 2 Nil
Foodstuffs Food Poisoning 15 Nil
INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATES OF VACCINATION
and INOCULATION.
At the request of the Ministry of Health arrangements are made
for the authentication, by the Medical Officer of Health, of certificates
of vaccination and inoculation issued by medical practitioners in the
Borough in respect of persons going abroad.
During 1954, 237 certificates were authenticated.
CANCER.
During 1954 the number of deaths of Battersea residents from
Cancer was 214 (males, 115; females, 99) as compared with 242 in
the 1952, 252 in 1951, and 237 in 1950. The death rate from
the disease per 1,000 of the population was 1.87. The deaths from
cancer contitute 18.6 per cent, of the total Battersea deaths during
the year.

Details in age groups and the localisation of this disease will be
found on page 12.