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Lambeth 1900

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, The Vestry of the Parish of]

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logical examination is found to be of the greatest assistance, and
the means (free of cost) offered to Medical Practitioners practising
in Lambeth Parish by the Vestry are being more and more used
Unfortunately, in connection with this particular outbreak, the
early doubtful cases were not bacteriologically examined. The
result has been that several known centres of typhoid have existed,
and been the means of spreading the disease, either directly
from person to person, or indirectly through the medium of
clothes during the process of mangling. Four definitely infected
mangles have been traced, vizi, 14, S. Place; 22, C. Street; 28,
C. Street; and 10, C. Road, and from these houses have arisen,
directly or indirectly, 26 cases. Thus: —
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