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OTHER SAMPLES AND SPECIMENS SUBMITTED
TO PATHOLOGICAL LABORATORY FOR
BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION
40 empty milk bottles were submitted at intervals during the
year for bacteriological examination directly following their treatment
by the bottle washing machine for a local milk bottling
plant; all were found to be satisfactory.
4 samples of Frozen Egg and 5 samples of Egg Noodles
were examined and were found satisfactory, no pathogenic organisms
being isolated.
The following 13 samples of foodstuffs were examined in
connection with suspected cases of Fo0d Poisoning and were
found to be free of pathogenic organisms:—
Sweet and Sour Pork Cooked Yellow Rice
Raw Sausagemeat Cooked White Rice
Raw Marrow Savoury Minced Steak
Cooked Marrow and Bean Sprouts
Sausagemeat Residue of prepacked Chinese
Reshni Kebads Food
Cooked Chicken Pork Brawn
Cooked Chopped Beef
The culture from a composite Chinese Meal showed the
following result:—"A heamolytic strain of clostzidium welchii was
isolated".
2 samples of chicken manure, foliage and soil were examined
during an investigation into an alleged hazard to health—no
pathogeus were isolated.
976 specimens of faeces were examined from persons suspected
to be suffering from infectious disease or fo0d poisoning,
or who were contacts of persons so suffering.