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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
City of London 1917
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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Examination of Pathological Material :
Examined at the Shelter 177
Examined at the Hospital Laboratory 19
Total 196
The following indicates the number of attendances
-of patients from the various areas:—
Administrative County Middlesex 106
of London 1,914 Surrey 44
Essex 38
Kent 35
Herts 6
Dorset 34 Scotland 3
Wales 40 Birmingham 1
EXAMINATION OF MILK FOR TUBERCULOSIS
AND CONDITION AS TO CLEANLINESS.
During the month of February 24 samples of
Milk were collected for bacteriological examination.
They included supplies from Norfolk 5, Cambridgeshire
2, Essex 8, and Suffolk 9. Of the total, 75 per
cent, were classified as clean and 25 per cent, as
unclean, but of this latter only 2, or 8*5 per cent, of
the whole, could be termed really dirty milks. In one
instance the tubercle bacillus was found.