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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

Shoreditch 1952

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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15.
BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS.
The Public Health Laboratory Service at Colindale continued to
carry out examinations of swabs, specimens, etc- on behalf of this
Council until the beginning of December when the Laboratory
established at Mile End Hospital agreed to undertake examinations of nose
and throat swab3 and faeces. This gave us the advantage of being
able to send swabs received later in the afternoon, for examination
the same day.

Table: Records of examinations carried out during the year are as follows:

Records of examinations carried out during the year are as follows:

Colindale Laboratory.
Nose and Throat swabs:Diphtheria Bacilli present
Haemolytic streptococci present45
Organisms of Vincent's Angina present-
Negative results108
Total153
Faeces specimens:Shigella Sonnei isolated98
Salmonella isolated7
Negative results171
Total276
Ice Cream samples17
Swimming bath water11
Mile End Laboratory.
Nose and Throat swabs:Haemolytic streptococci present1
Negative results4
Total5
Faeces specimens:Negative results7

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FOOD POISONING.
Once again, there was no outbreak of food poisoning in the
Borough, and, even as regards individual cases, there was this time
only one case - a man who ate three duck eggs and developed a
typhi-murium infection.