Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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ENTERIC (TYPHOID) FEVER.
The total number of specimens from suspected enteric fever patients
amounted to 56, of which were received 42 from medical men in the
borough, and 14 examinations were made of patients in the Borough
Hospital.
The following table gives a summary of the serum re-actions
obtained in the laboratory during 1909:—
1909. | Examinations for Borough. | Examinations for Hospital. | Total. | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Agglutinative Reactions. | Agglutinative Reactions. | Agglutinative Reactions tor all purposes. | |||||||
+ | — | Total | + | — | Total | + | — | Total | |
2 | 2 | — | — | — | 2 | 2 | |||
1 | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||
— | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | ||
— | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | — | 2 | 2 | |
— | — | — | — | — | |||||
— | — | — | — | — | |||||
— | — | — | — | — | |||||
— | 2 | 2 | — | 2 | — | ||||
2 | — | ||||||||
— | — | — | — | — | |||||
6 | - | ||||||||
— | |||||||||
— | |||||||||
— | — | — | |||||||
— | 2 | 6 | |||||||