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GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES
Public Health Laboratory Service
The Public Health Laboratory Service carry out bacteriological examinations at the Central Public
Health Laboratory, Colindale Avenue, N.W.9, and at the branch laboratory in Neasden Hospital, Brentfield
Road, N.W.10.
Private practitioners send specimens, such as swabs from sore throats, fæces from intestinal infections,
and cough plates and post-nasal swabs from whooping cough cases to the branch laboratory in Neasden
Hospital, the Health Department, 54, Winchester Avenue, NW.6, the Willesden Health Centre, 381, High
Road, Willesden, NW.10, the Kilburn Health Centre, 9, Willesden Lane, N.W.6, or the Stonebridge Health
Centre, Harrow Road, NW.10. They are collected and taken to the Central Public Health Laboratory.
The practitioner receives a report by telephone the next morning, followed by a written report.
The Sanitary Inspectors send samples of milk taken from dealers in the district.
The following results were obtained during 1953:—
Organisms Found
364 Throat/Nose Swabs:
Diphtheria bacilli —
Haemolytic streptococci 133*
Vincent's angina 10*
Negative 227
*Both haemolytic streptococci and Vincent's angina were found in 6 swabs.
1798 Faeces Specimens:
Shigella 283
Salmonella 27
Protozoa —
Negative 1488
1899 Sputum Specimens:
T.B. 320
Other organisms 59
Negative 1520
21 Post-Nasal Swabs:
B. Pertussis 4
Negative 17
167 Milk Examinations
Schools
(pasteurised)
Dealers' premises
Total
Pasteurised
T.T.
pasteurised
Sterilised
Samples
56
79
10
22
167
Satisfactory
56
79
10
22
167
Unsatisfactory
-
-
-
-
-
16 Ice Cream Tests:
Grade 1 12
Grade 2 4
Grade 3 —
Grade 4 —
102 Water Examinations:
Domestic Supplies, etc. 10
Swimming pools 92
Satisfactory 102
MISCELLANEOUS 147
Total number of examinations: 4514