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Hendon 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]

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LABORATORY FACILITIES.
These continued as in previous years by arrangements
with the University College Hospital but the bacteriological
examination of specimens taken by members of the Public
Health Department is, as far as possible, undertaken at the
Isolation Hospital. Considerable more use has been made of
the Laboratory at the Isolation Hospital and over 1,000 additional
bacteriological investigations were carried out there.
The following are particulars of specimens examined
during the year:—

Table: TABLE VII.

TABLE VII.

AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL:—
Cultures examined for Diphtheria Bacillus1218
Virulence tests173
Sputum for Tubercle Bacillus174
Other examinations311
Total1876