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Southgate 1943

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southgate]

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Year -time Day Nurseries.
Alderman House, Aldermans Hill, Palmers Green.
Tottenhall Sports Ground, Tottenhall Road, Palmers Green.
Hoppers Road, Palmers Green.
IMMUNISATION (against diphtheria.) CLINIC - (Southgate
Council) Town Hall, Palmers Green. Thursday 2-4
The TUBERCULOSIS, VENEREAL DISEASE and SCHOOL
CLINICS (Middlesex County Council) continue as set out in
the Report for 1938, except that the Tuberculosis
Dispensary at Hornsey has been closod'.'
AMBULANCE FACILITIES- There has been no material change
in the Ambulance facilities as recorded in the Reports for
1935, 1936 and 1939.
MORTUARY - During 1943, 88 bodies were deposited in the
Council's mortuary situated at the rear of the Town Hall.
87 post-mortem examinations were held.
Laboratory FACILITIES - The following tables set out the
work carried out at the Council's laboratory, and at other
laboratories to which material was sent during 1943.
Work carried out at the Council's laboratory.
HOSPITAL BOROUGH
Positive Positive
Negative Negative
Swabs for Diphtheria bacilli 263 1697 18 240
" " Haemolytic
Streptococci 2 11 - 9
" " Streptococci - - 9 12
" Vincents Angina - - - 4
Sputa for Tubercle bacilli - - 14 126
" " Pneumococci - - 1
Total 2406 (1942,
2789)
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