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184

Well water

TABLE XII-(Continued).

Water other than public supplies

Total

8

132

2,312

NATURE OF EXAMINATION

SUMMARY

24. Milk and other foods-One thousand and twenty-three examinations of milk were performed, largely at the instance of the health authorities. Results on the whole were very satisfactory. Eight hundred and fourteen examinations of a miscellaneous nature were also carried out as shown. The findings were usually of a reasonable bacteriological standard.

Milks Ice-creams

Popsicles

Aerated waters

Tinned foods

Total

TABLE XIII.

(10) Morbid Histology.

1,023

499

161

152

1,837

were

26. Four hundred and eleven tissue sections examined for histological diagnosis. Of these, one hundred and ninety-nine were benign or malignant tumours as the table shows.

26. Negri bodies-Two hundred and twelve brains were examined for the presence of Negri bodies. There were twenty positive human cases, and forty-one in dogs. One of the posi- tive dogs' heads was sent from Kukong in Kwangtung Province, China,

Brains Examined for Negri Bodies.

TABLE XIV.

Positive Negative

Total

Human brains

RAAMAANA

20

2

22

Dogs' Cats'

41

124

165

+

20

20

+

Rats'

5

5

11

Total

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61

161

212

Agglutination

reaction

Bact. typhosum

paratyphosum A

E

Enteric fever, type undetermined')

Br. melitensis

Br. abortua

Weil Felix reaction ....................****

Serological reaction for syphilis

Blood smearu

Haematology

Cultural

examination

Faeces

Tissue section

Malaria

Filaria

E. anthracis

Ifb. percentage

Total Rod Cell Count

Total White Coll Count

Differential Count

Blood Sedimentation Rate

גו

Coagulation Time

Bleeding Time

Platelet Count

Reticulocyte Count

Blod Grouping

Croas Matching

Naso-pharyngeal swaba (C. diphtherise)

Haem. Streptococci

┪***÷--'

Cerebro-spinal fluid for pathogenic organismS Faces for pathogenic organişmi

Blood clot culture (enteric organisms only) Blood

Urine

Intestinal parasites

Occult blood

M. tuberculosis

Brains for Negri bodies

Sputa

Gastric lavages for M. tuberculosis

Smears for gonococcus

Smears for M. leprae

Rat spleen smears for F, Pestia

Urine (Routine, chemical & microscopic) Pregnancy testa

(Friedman)

(Frog)

Bacteriological examination of milk and foods

Miscellaneous

analysis of water

Grand total