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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

Surbiton 1958

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Surbiton]

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LABORATORY FACILITIES
Extensive use is made of the facilities provided by the
Public Health Laboratory Service (directed by the Medical
Research Council for the Ministry of Health); and opportunity
is taken to gratefully acknowledge the co-operation of Doctor
D.M. Stone and her staff at the Epsom Laboratory to which our
specimens are taken.

Table: Apart from samples of water, milk, ice-cream and other food (details of which are given under other headings) the undermentioned specimens were collected by the Inspectors in the course of investigating cases of dysentery, typhoid, food poisoning, etc. and taken to the Laboratorys:-

Apart from samples of water, milk, ice-cream and other food (details of which are given under other headings) the undermentioned specimens were collected by the Inspectors in the course of investigating cases of dysentery, typhoid, food poisoning, etc. and taken to the Laboratorys:-

YearFaecesSuspected Food.
19516942
195218315
195312912
19542638
195530610
19563,7046
19572,25624
195861013

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EXCLUSION FROM SCHOOL
Eightyfour certificates were issued excluding and
re-admitting school cases and contacts of infectious diseases.
19.