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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

Marylebone 1907

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]

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BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS.

Table: These examinations are conducted by Dr. Eastes, at the Laboratory of Pathology and Public Health, 38, New Cavendish Street, in doubtful cases of Typhoid Fever, Diphtheria and Phthisis, and the following table gives particulars of the number of cases and the result there of:—

These examinations are conducted by Dr. Eastes, at the Laboratory of Pathology and Public Health, 38, New Cavendish Street, in doubtful cases of Typhoid Fever, Diphtheria and Phthisis, and the following table gives particulars of the number of cases and the result there of:—

Positive.Negative.Total.
Typhoid Fever3710
Diphtheria123345
Phthisis215071
"Continued " Fever1–1
Totals3790127

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The utility of these examinations to the Medical Practitioner
and the Public Health Department is so great that they are now
an absolutely essential part of the work of the Department.
LONDON (NOTIFICATION OF GLANDERS)
ORDER, 1907.
Under the London (Notification of Glanders) Order, 1907,
Article 2 (5), it is laid down that on and from the 1st of January,
1908,
"an Inspector of the Local Authority who receives
"information of the existence or suspected existence of
"disease, shall forthwith report the fact to the Local
"Authority, and also to the Medical Officer of Health of the
"Sanitary District in which the animal died or was
"slaughtered, or in which the carcase was at the time of the
" notice."
Local Authority for the purposes of this Order means
the London County Council.
Inspector for the purposes of this Order means the
Veterinary Inspector of the London County Council.
During the year notifications were forwarded by the
Inspector as outbreaks occurred, and all the steps in connection
with the slaughter of diseased animals and the cleansing and
disinfection of infected premises were carried out by and under
the supervision of the London County Council Inspector, in
accordance with the Glanders and Farcy Order of 1907, and the
London County Council's Regulations made thereunder. The
disease was notified as occurring at the following premises in the
Borough.