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SECTION B.
GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES
FOR THE AREA.
(i) GENERAL HEALTH SERVICES.
(a) Laboratory Facilities.—The following table shows
the routine work which has been carried out by arrangement
with the Essex County Council at the Counties'
Public Health Laboratories, situated in Queen Victoria
Street, London, E.C.4 :—
Specimen. No. examined.
Diphtheria 1,066
Sputa 311
Typhoid 7
Milk 64
Water 19
Ice-cream 28
General 45
Total 1,540
In addition to the above, 4 biological tests were
carried out to test the virulence or otherwise of germs
of the diphtheria group.
During the year laboratory facilities have been
developed. It is not so much that new facilities have
actually been opened up, but that facilities already
existing have been consolidated and used to fuller and
better advantage.
Your own laboratory has continued its work at the
Barking Hospital, and has continued, together with
Dr. F. E. Camps, of Chelmsford, its special work in