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(3) Urine.-One hundred and thirty-six urines were cultured for organisms.
(4) Urethral and cervical smears.-Six hundred and seventeen urethral and cervical smears were examined for the presence of the gonococcus.
(5) Nasal and skin scrapings for M. leprae.-One hundred and fifty-four examinations of material from suspected leprosy cases were made. Fifty were positive.
(6) Throat swabs.-One thousand four hundred and fifty-four swabs were cultured for the presence of C. diphtheriae. The total number, as well as the number of positives is well below the figures recorded for 1986.
Table XXXIX.
European Indian Chinese Total Positive 1 1 8 10 Negative 96 240 1,117 1,453 1,454 Grand total 97 241 1,125 1,463 1,454(7) Cerebro-spinal fluid.-Two hundred and thirty-two fluids were cultured for the meningococcus and other pathogenic organisms. The numbers of fluids infected with the meningococcus was somewhat higher than last year, but the figure is still within our usual endemic total.
Table XL.
European Indian Chinese Total Meningococcus 5 1 9 15 Pneumococcus 5 0 5 10 Streptococcus 0 0 1 1 Negative 82 113 201 396 Grand total 92 114 216 422 232 Total 92 120 226 232