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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 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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PATHOLOGICAL SERVICES—continued.
NORTHERN GROUP LABORATORY.
T able IX—
| Hospital. | Bacteriological. | Pathological. | Biochemical. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diphtheria Group. | Typhoid Group. | Agglutinations. | Ident. of organisms. | Gonococci. | T.B. | Wassermann. | Other Comp. fix. | Special vaccines. | Animal inocul. | Blood. | Urine—General. | Fæces—General. | C.S.F. | Blood sugar and urea. | Other blood. | Urine. | Fæces. | Histological— No. blocks. | Milk samples. | Total. | ||||||
| Virulence. | Microscropic | Fæces. | Urine. | Full cnt. | Diff. cnt. | Culture. | General. | Lange.etc. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Eastern | 335 | 610 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 149 | 11 | 11 | _ | _ | 2 | _ | 3 | — | _ | — | 3 | 19 | — | — | — | — | — | 4 | — | 1,157 |
| Northern | 39 | 43 | — | — | 7 | 15 | 1 | 170 | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 283 |
| North -Eastern | 1321 | 4518* | 23 | 3 | 30 | 4186 | 34 | 26 | — | — | — | 1 | 22 | 16 | 10 | 72 | 61 | 36 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 36 | 2 | 10,410 |
| North -Western | 287 | 242 | 48 | 37 | 83 | 504 | 4 | 9 | — | — | 9 | — | — | 1 | 23 | 96 | 5 | 33 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1,383 |
| Western | 282 | 284 | 9 | 4 | 30 | 170 | 17 | 19 | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | 5 | — | 3 | — | 28 | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | 855 |
| Edmonton colony | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 9 |
| Sheffield-street | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1156 | —— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1,158 |
| South-Eastern | 6 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 8 |
| Total | 2270 | 5699 | 82 | 46 | 159 | 5025 | 1223 | 241 | — | — | 13 | 3 | 25 | 22 | 33 | 175 | 72 | 116 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 40 | 2 | 15,263 |
| * Includes 2,877 "carrier" cultures. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||