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14.
BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS.
The Laboratory at th9 Mile End Hospital continued to carry out examinations of
swabs and specimens on behalf of this Council until the beginning of December when
it was arranged that these examinations should be undertaken by the Bacteriological
Laboratory of the Medical Research Council which is accommodated at County Hall.
Records of examinations carried out during the year are as follows:-
Mile End Laboratory.
Nose and Throat Swabs
Diphtheria Bacilli present
Haemolytic Streptooocci present14
Organisms of Vincent's Angina present.
Negative results 25
Total 39
Faeces specimens:
Shigella Sonnei isolated 105
Negative results 282
Total.. 387
Bacteriologioal Laboratory
of the M.R.C.
Nose and Throat Swabs:
Negative results 2
Faeces specimens:
Shigella Sonnei isolated 78
Negative results 90
Total 168
Ice Cream samples 6
Swimming bath water 17
FOOD POISONING.
No outbreak of food poisoning occurred in this borough during the year, the
only individual cases being as follows:-
(1) A girl aged 7 years was notified by the hospital to which she had been
taken as a bacteriologically confirmed case of salmonella typhi murium
On enquiry it was found that the only article of food she had, different
from the other members of the family who had no ill effects,was a "toffee
lollie" purohased from a shop in an adjoining borough. This information
was passed to the local authority concerned.
(2) A man aged 32 years and a women aged 66 years, were guests at a wedding
reception at Acton where an outbreak occurred. Bacteriological
examination of tongue which had been cooked privately and which was eaten
at the meal revealed staphylococcus aureus. Both patients were admitted
to hospital, the man recovering after 4 days and the woman being
discharged after 11 days.