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FOOD POISONING.
Twenty-seven notifications were received during the year.
SCABIES.
114 cases were notified.
379 cases of scabies were treated at the Council's Cleansing
Station under the supervision of the two bathing attendants. The
majority of the cases are now treated by the benzyl benzoate
method.
BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS
All these examinations are carried out by the Camber well
Research Laboratory which in October became a Public Health
Service Laboratory directed by the Medical Research Council for the
Ministry of Health.
During the year, 880 diphtheria cultures and 544 specimens of
sputum were examined. Twenty cultures for dysentery, 110 for
streptococcus haemolyticus and 20 others were also examined.
TRANSFERRED SERVICES
The figures given in respect of the services which, on the 5th
July, 1948, came under the control of the London County Council
or the Regional Hospital Board, are for the period 1st January,
1948, to 5th July, 1948, only.
DISTRICT NURSING
The Council had an arrangement with the various Nursing
Associations in the Borough for a nurse to attend patients suffering
from certain infectious diseases and minor ailments. 4,080 visits
were made to July 5th.