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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 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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LABORATORY SERVICES
The Laboratory Services are directed by the Medical Research Council
on behalf of the Ministry of Health Pathological specimens are sent for
examination to the Central Public Health Laboratory at Colindale and
the Branch Laboratory at Coppetts Wood Hospital, Hornsey The
Public Health Department is a collection centre for specimens submitted
by general practitioners and supplies of containers are obtainable between
90 am and 515 pm (9 am to 1230 pm on Saturday)
Specimens received in the Public Health Department office are
collected on Monday to Friday at 3 pm and at 10 am on Saturday by
a messenger from the Laboratory Service Specimens may also be sent
direct to the Hornsey Laboratory before 5 pm Monday to Friday and
12 noon on Saturday
The Central Public Health Laboratory maintains a twenty-four hour
emergency service
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 extremely valuable in
controlling the spread of infection
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