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(18)
Proved positive cases 313
531
Clinical cases not referred until after
recovery and suspects at risk 218 )
Clearance Certificates issued (after 3
negative specimens) for parents to take
to their doctors 480 )
Hospital cases 33 ) 531
Known cases dealt with outside the Borough 18 )
Laboratory investigations on specimens sent through
the Council's Public Health Department during the 12
weeks from 21st June to 11th September, 1954 2,468 .
The above figures give an illustration of the very great amount
of work which was carried out by the West London Pathological
Laboratory, the general practitioners and the members of the Public
Health Staff concerned. Without their ready co-operation, it would
have been impossible to bring such a large epidemic to a close within
such a relatively brief time.