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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
Southgate 1942
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southgate]
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Work carried out at the Council's laboratory
HOSPITAL BOROUGH
Positive Positive
Negative Negative
Swabs for Diphtheria
bacilli 204 2244 6 196
Swabs for Haemolytic
Streptococci – 3 – 5
Sputa for Tubercle
bacilli 1 4 7 119
Total 2,789 (1941, 2,389)
Specimens sent to Clinical Research Association.
Faeces for Typhoid Negative 6
„ „ Dysentery Positive 4
Negative 9
„ „ Food Poisoning Negative 1
Blood „ Typhoid Negative 3
Positive 2
Nasopharyngeal swabs Negative 5
Specimens sent to laboratory at Prince of
Wales's Hospital.
Cerebro-spinal fluid Negative 3
Nasopharyngeal swabs Negative 2
Faeces for Typhoid Negative 1
Swabs for virulence tost Negative 7
Positive 11
Negative swabs 25
Swabs for haemolytic streptococci Negative 4
Urine 1
Pleural fluid 1
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