[Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Birmingham.

  • Birmingham (England). Council.
Date:
1941
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Credit: [Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Birmingham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES 1. General Services (a) Laboratory Facilities I—City Bacteriological Laboratory The 'work done in the City Bacteriological Laboratory is set out in detail below : (a) GENERAL LABORATORY No. of Specimens. Diphtheria swabs : {a) For practitioners 4.286 (6) For fever hospitals 4,083 (c) For virulence test 1,186 Swabs for staphylococci 1,087 Swabs for streptococci 393 Faeces 2,291 Milks 582 Milk for tuberculosis 2,453 Precipitin tests .. 300 Sputum for tuberculosis 1,765 Shell-fish 22 Water samples 697 Vaccines prepared 2 Widal’s reaction . . 3,214 Miscellaneous 9,032 Total NEREAL DISEASES LABORATORY 31,393 Blood for Wassermann reaction Cerebro-spinal fluid : 25,071 (a) For Wassermann reaction 779 (&) For cell count . . 160 Serum for spirochaetes . . 11 Films for gonorrhoea Urine examinations : 13,003 (a) Microscopic 1 {b) Chemical.. 155 Gonococcal fixation tests 3,245 Vaccines prepared 392 Cultures prepared 12,242 Van den Bergh’s tests .. 73 Sigma tests 410 Kahn tests 17,700 Total 73,242