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Coroner's Court and Mortuary
No. of bodies received into the Mortuary 183
No. of Inquests held 184
No. of Post-mortem Examinations made 92
Bacteriological Work.
Increasing use is made of the facilities afforded by the
Council for bacteriological work at the St. John's Hospital, and
during the year 2834 specimens were examined, compared with
2702 in the previous year, the details being as follows: —
Material from cases of suspected Diphtheria:—
Diphtheria bacillus isolated 164
Negative 1839
2003
Sputa from cases of suspected Tuberculosis: —
Tubercle bacillus found 119
„ ,, not found 621
740
Blood from cases of suspected Enteric Fever:—
Positive result 6
Negative result 73
79
Pathological specimens for enteric organisms: —
Positive result 2
Negative result 10
12
Disinfection.
The Disinfecting Station is housed at the Council's Depot
in Molesworth Street, Lewisham, and the staff consists of the
Superintendent, one Boiler Attendant, and five Disinfectors, two
of whom are drivers for motor vehicles in which the infected
articles are collected and returned.
The work carried out during
the year is set out in tabular form below:—