London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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City of London 1913

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No. of Sample.Date of receipt.Cleanliness.Date of inoculation of guinea.pig.Date of the animal's death.Interval after inoculation.Condition of animal at death.Result at regards tubercle.
12Nov. 5CleanNov. 6Killed Dec. 933 daysNormalNegative.
13”CleanNov. 11Dead Nov. 2211 daysNo local lesion found. Glands and viscera normal. Blood sterile. No cause found for death.Negative.
14”Clean”Killed Dec. 1029 daysNormalNegative.
15”Clean”Killed Dec. 1029 daysNormalNegative.
16”Clean”Killed Dec. 1130 daysNormalNegative.
17”Very little dirt”Killed Dec. 1130 daysNormalNegative.
18”Clean”Killed Dec. 1130 daysNormalNegative.
19Nov. 12CleanNov. 13Killed Dec. 1532 daysLocal abscess, with caseous lymphatic glands. Tubercle bacilli abundant. No visceral tubercle.Positive.
20”Clean”Killed Dec. 1532 daysNormalNegative,
21”Clean”Dead Nov. 2310 daysLocal staphylococcal abscess. No tubercle bacilli found. Glands normal. Suppurative pericarditis and mediastinitis due to a coliform bacillus.Negative.
22”Clean”Dead Dec. 1330 daysLocal abscess with no tubercle bacilli. Two or three small abscesses in liver. (No tubercle bacilli found—but B. coli grown from pus).Negative.
23”Trace of dirt.”Dead Nov. 207 daysNo inflammation round residue of cream. No tubercle bacilli present. Gartner's bacillus cultivated from spleen and heart'e blood.Negative (presumably).
24”CleanNov. 13Killed Dec. 1532 daysNormalNegative.
25Nov. 17CleanNov. 18Killed Dec. 1830 daysNormalNegative.
26”Clean”Killed Dec. 1830 daysNormalNegative.
27”Clean”Killed Dec. 1830 daysNormalNegative.
28”Clean”Killed Dec. 1931 daysNormalNegative.
29”Clean”Killed Dec. 1931 daysNormalNegative.
30”Very little d”Killed Dec. 1931 daysNormalNegative.
31Nov. 19CleanNov. 20Killed Dec. 2232 daysNormalNegative.
32”Clean”Killed Dec. 2232 daysTuberculous abscess at site of inoculation. Inguinal, femoral and iliac glands caseous. Tubercle bacilli found. No viscera tubercle.Positive.
33”Clean”Killed Dec. 2232 daysNormalNegative.
34”A little dirt”Killed Dec. 2233 daysNormalNegative.
35”Clean”Killed Dec. 2333 daysNormalNegative.
36”Very little d”Dead Dec. 414 daysNo local inflammation. No sign of tubercle anywhere Viscera normal. Blood sterile. No cause for death found.Negative.