[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough] page 28

Marylebone 1915

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

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BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS.

Table: The number of specimens examined bacteriologically, and the diseases in relation to which the examinations were made, are shown in the following table. As in 1914, the work was in the hands of Dr. Foulerton, who was appointed bacteriologist to the Council in April of that year.

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The number of specimens examined bacteriologically, and the diseases in relation to which the examinations were made, are shown in the following table. As in 1914, the work was in the hands of Dr. Foulerton, who was appointed bacteriologist to the Council in April of that year.

	1914			1915.
	Positive.	Negative.	Total.	Positive.	Negative.	Total.
Typhoid Fever	20	33	53	3	19	22
Diphtheria	93	650	743	41	221	262
Phthisis	173	686	859	140	525	665
Wassermann Reaction	38	82	120	57	114	171
Cerebro-Spinal Fever	-	-	--	-	1	1
Totals	324	1451	1775	241	880	1121

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Table: The number of specimens examined bacteriologically, and the diseases in relation to which the examinations were made, are shown in the following table. As in 1914, the work was in the hands of Dr. Foulerton, who was appointed bacteriologist to the Council in April of that year.