[Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Aberdeen City.

  • Aberdeen (Scotland). City Council.
Date:
1938
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Credit: [Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Aberdeen City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -38- LABORATQRY SERVICES. The aim of the Department is to providelaboratory facilities for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease. The following statement gives in detail the number and results of examinations for the City of Aberdeen (including City Hospital and Woodend Hospital) during the year 1938. Grand Positive. Negative. Total. Total. Diphtheria; Throat, nose and ear swabs 2,623 13,673 16,296 16,296 Tuberculosis: Sputum 829 2,080 2,909 Faeces 0 9 9 Urines 2 99 101 Chest pus and fluids 3 76 79 Other pus and fluids 3 65 68 Cerebrospinal fluids 14 50 64 Miscellaneous C 2 2 3,232 Typhoid Fever; Blood cultures 3 63 66 Widals 1 262 263 Faeces 17 56 73 Urines 6 50 56 Miscellaneous 2 1 3 461 Paratyphoid Fever; Blood cultures 5 2 7 Widals 7 167 174 Faeces 22 16 38 Urines 4 19 23 242 Bacillary Dysentery; Faeces 666 1,285 1,951 1,951 Food Poisoning; Blood agglutinations 2 0 2 Faeces 54 32 86 Food stuffs 0 1 1 90 Miscellaneous 0 1 1 Puerperal Fever; Blood cultures 33 120 153 Pus 103 28 131 284 Undulant Fever; Blood agglutinations 18 164 182 182 Weil's Disease; Blood agglutinations 35 58 93 102 Urines 1 8 9 Venereal/ Carry forward; 22,840