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 Camberwell.
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The heavy continuous line shews the deaths.
The numbers are shewn at the side of the column.
Fig. 1. Case 387. Pure typical diphtheria. X 1,000.
Fig. 2. Case 368. Various bacilli, cocci, etc., with a
very small number of diphtheria bacilli, x 1,000.
Fig. 3. Case 392. Organisms much resembling the last,
but with only a single doubtful diphtheria bacillus, x 1,000.
Fig. 4. Case 34. Cladothrix. A very rare throat
organism. I have met with it only twice in nearly three
thousand examinations, x 1,000.
Fig. 5. Typhoid bacilli at the " culture " end of a Widal
preparation, made as described. The bacilli are seen to be
fairly evenly distributed, x 500.
Fig. 6. Typhoid bacilli at the point of mixture in the
same preparation. The bacilli are seen to be " clumped"
together, and there are very few in the surrounding portion of
the preparation. The picture is quite characteristic, x 500.