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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
Paddington 1921
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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APPENDIX: BACTERIOLOGICAL WORK.
TABLE XXI. Bacteriological Work. 19-21.
| Diphtheria. | Enteric Fever. | Tuberculosis. | Ophthalmia. | Cerebro- Spinal Meningitis. | Other. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos. | Neg. | Hoffman. | Pos. | Neg. | Pos. | Neg. | Pos. | Neg. | Pos. | Neg. | Pos. | Neg. | |
| Primary | 108 | 571. | 1 | 11† | 37 | 157 | 4 | ||||||
| Repeats | 4 | 71 | 1 | - | 12 | ||||||||
| 112 | 642 | - | 1 | 12 | 37 | 169 | _ | 4 | |||||
| 1921 | 754 | 13 | 206 | 4 | |||||||||
| 1920 | 1,419 | 4 | 173 | 4 | |||||||||
| 1919 | 479 | 4 | 144 | 2 | |||||||||
| 1918 | 298 | 7 | 159 | 6 | |||||||||
| 1917 | 338 | - | 197 | 12 | |||||||||
| 1916 | 225 | 6 | 214 | 14 | |||||||||
| 1915 | 359 | 18 | 245 | 10 | |||||||||
| 1914 | 1,479 | 12 | 259 | 4 | 2 | 11 | |||||||
| 1913 | 722 | 29 • | 240 | 6 | 7 | 1 | |||||||
† Includes 2 examinations of Urine and Faeces.
. Does not include 51 .no growth. swabs.