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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

Acton 1922

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]

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19 1922

Table: TABLE 10.BACTERIOLOGICAL LABORATORY.

TABLE 10.

BACTERIOLOGICAL LABORATORY.

PositiveNegative
Total Examinations (2,773)1,1361,637
Sent by Medical Practitioners144292
Sent from Isolation Hospital384678
Contacts322532
Of these Positive Contacts
244 were postive on the first occasion only.
53 „ second ,, „
25 „ third „ „
School Sore Throats.
PositiveNegative
Cases59129
Swabs77175
Nineteen of the Positive Sore Throat Cases had sufficient Clinical symptoms to warrant removal to Hospital.

Table: TABLE 11.STAFF TO WHOSE SALARY CONTRIBUTION IS MADE UNDER THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACTS OR BY EXCHEQUER GRANTS.

TABLE 11.

STAFF TO WHOSE SALARY CONTRIBUTION IS MADE UNDER THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACTS OR BY EXCHEQUER GRANTS.

D.J. Thomas.m.r.c.S., l.rc.p., d.p.h., Medical Officer of Health. (Medical Superintendent of the Isolation Hospital and School Medical Officer).
M.W. Kinch.Member of the Royal Sanitary Institute, holds Meat Certificate; Senior Sanitary Inspector. (Inspector under Diseases of Animals Acts, and the Rag Flock Act).
J.J. Jenkins.Cert. Sanitary Institute. Holds Meat Certificate. Sanitary Inspector. (Inspector under Fabrics Misdescription Act).
E.W. Brooks.Cert. San. Inst. Sanitary Inspector.
E.F. Eldred.Cert. San. Inst. Holds Meat Certificate. Sanitary Inspector.
Miss A. Cooksey.Cert. San. Inst. Health Visitor.
Miss J. Welsh.Cert. San. Inst. C.M.B. Health Visitor.
Mrs. Light.Clerk.

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TABULAR STATEMENT OF INSPECTIONS AND DETAIL OF
WORK CARRIED OUT BY THE SANITARY INSPECTORS.
Number and nature of Inspections made.
House to house Inspections 331
After infectious disease 544
On complaint, Etc. 878
Premises under periodical inspection 591
Re-inspections after notice served 7,102
Enquiry visits on notification of infectious disease 574