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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Lambeth 1905

Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1905

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admixture with other bacilli, whereas in the remaining 71 (i.c.,
63.96 per cent.) the Klebs-Lœffler bacilli were found combined
with other well-known bacilli as follows :—
Klebs-Lœffler bacilli + staphylococci 27
Klebs-Lœffler bacilli + streptococci 14
Klebs-Lœffler bacilli + staphylococci 4- streptococci 5
Klebs-Lœffler bacilli + pseudo (Hoffmann) bacilli +
staphylococci 4
Klebs-Lœffler bacilli + streptococci + torulœ 1
Klebs-Lœffler bacilli + staphylococci + sarcinœ 1
Klebs-Lœffler bacilli + sarcinœ. 3
Klebs-Lœffler bacilli + streptococci + sarcinœ 3
Klebs-Lœffler bacilli + Diplococci 2
Klebs-Lœffler bacilli + Vincent's organisms 1
Klebs-Lœffler bacilli pseudo (Hoffmann) bacilli 1
Klebs-Lœffler bacilli + pseudo (Hoffmann) bacilli +
staphylococci sarcinœ 4
Klebs-Lœffler bacilli -)- pseudo (Hoffmann) bacilli +
staphylococci + streptococci 2
Klebs-Lœffler bacilli + streptococci + staphylococci +
sarcinœ 3
In 1,533 (i.e, 93'2 per cent.) of the total number of throat and
nose samples examined, the Klebs-Lœffler bacilli were not
isolated, but other bacilli were found as follow :—
Staphylococci 536
Streptococci 63
Staphylococci + streptococci 484
Staphylococci + sarcinœ 16
Staphylococci + torulœ76
Staphylococci + micrococci 9
Staphylococci -+- diplococci 1
Staphylococci -+- smegma 1
Staphylococci + torulœ + sarcinœ 1