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Food (including animal specimens from abattoirs, whole
bovine blood and blood plasma) 37
Ice Cream (methylene blue test) 7.
Milk (methylene blue, phosphatase and turbidity tests) 362
Milk bottles 6
Faeces 11
Water (from swimming baths, children's paddling pools,
boating lakes and from domestic supply) . 81
Total 504
The examination of specimens of human origin (mainly swab examinations) for
the general practitioners in the Borough, and also specimens referred to the hospital
from local clinics, is undertaken by the Woolwich Group Hospital Management
Committee. The work was formerly carried out at the Memorial Hospital laboratory,
but is now being undertaken at the Brook Hospital and at St. Nicholas Hospital.
General practitioners referred ten sputum specimens for examination and the
hospital carried out 113 other sputum examinations during the year. Twenty-eight
nasal and throat swabs were referred to the hospital by general practitioners for
examination.
Metropolitan Bououob of Moolwtcb
T. STANDRING,
M.D.. D.P.H., M.R.C.S.,
Medical Officer of Health
Telephone: Woolwich 1121.
TOWN HALL,
WOOLWICH,
S.E. 18
With the Medical Officer of
Health's Compliments
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