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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
Hornsey 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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at Day Nurseries and this assistance is of extreme value in
controlling the spread of infection.
Details of specimens examined at the Central Public Health
Laboratory are as follows:—
Throat & Nose Swabs
Diphtheria bacilli 4
Haemolytic streptococci 124
Vincents angina. 15
Negative 211 354
Faeces
Shigella 56
Salmonella ---
Protozoa 1
Negative 366 423
Sputum
Tuberculosis smear 5
Other organisms 4
Negative 56 65
Pertussis
Cough plates ---
Postnasal swabs 7
Negative 173 180
Milk
Water ---
Miscellaneous 26 26
1,048
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