London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
London County Council 1899
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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sewage (ten samples); in 1 cc of effluent from 4-foot coke-bed (eight samples); and in 1 cc. of effluent
from 6-foot coke-bed (two samples). [Calculated from the number of colonies in phenol gelatine plate
culture containing 0.00001 cc. sample, which were indistinguishable from B. Coli in the characters of
their growth.]