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In each case the serum was tested against B. typhosus, paratyphi.
A and paratyph. B.
Miscellaneous Examinations.
Enteric stools, 8.
Tuberculous stools, 1.
Urine for tubercle, 4; for casts, 4; for organisms, 1.
Smears for gonococci, 13.
Blood for organisms, 2.
Pus for anthrax, 1.
Cerebro-spinal fluid, in
pected C.S. Meningitis. } 2; for other organisms, 6.
Blood for dysentery, 1.
Milk for organisms, 2.
Pus from cases for organisms, 3.
Other examinations, 15.
PROVISION OF PUBLIC LABORATORY.
The Corporation at present undertakes responsibility for the
examination of specimens for diphtheria, enteric fever, tuberculosis,
etc., at the Borough Hospital; of milk samples for tuberculosis and
for bacterial count, and of diphtheria cultures for virulence, at a
London laboratory; of specimens for suspected venereal disease at
the laboratories of various London general hospitals; and of
samples taken under the Foods and Drugs Acts, through its public
analyst.
During the course of the year the Public Health Committee,
after considering representations from the Insurance Committee
and from the local medical profession, put forward a scheme, which
was approved bv the Council, for an extension of laboratory facilities
to include general pathological work for the section of the
population coming within the terms of the Insurance Acts, or their
dependants, or others of similar status. The arrangement, made
in co-operation with the Governors of the Croydon General Hospital,
is as follows: —
1.—The Governors of the Croydon General Hospital to be
responsible for providing a suitable building for a laboratory.