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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 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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LABORATORY SERVICES
Pathological specimens are forwarded for examination to the Central
Public Health Laboratory at Hendon and to the Public Health Laboratory
at Coppetts Wood Hospital, which laboratories are directed by the
Medical Research Council for the Ministry of Health.
The assistance of the technical staff attached to the laboratories is
also available in connection with outbreaks of infectious diseases at day
nurseries and schools and this assistance is of extreme value in controlling
the spread of infection.
Details of specimens examined are as follows:—
Throat and Nose Swabs
Diphtheria bacilli 1
Haemolytic streptococci 160
Vincents angina 1
Negative 433
595
Faeces
Shigella 1
Salmonella 11
Protoza 1
Negative 82
95
Sputum
Tubercular smear 5
Other organisms 2
Negative 42
49
Pertussis
Cough Plates —
Postnasal swabs —
Negative 2
2
Milk
Ice cream 32
Pasteurized 23
55
Water
Swimming Pools 19
19
Miscellaneous 349
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