[Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Banff County Council.

  • Banffshire (Scotland). County Council.
Date:
1952
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Credit: [Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Banff County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4. Disabled Persons (Employment) Act, 1944 Of the 32 full-time employees of the Health Department. 2 are Registered Disabled Persons. As the nominee of the Banff, Moray and Nairn Local Medical Committee the Medical Officer of Health remained a member of the Disablement Advisory Committee for Banffshire. 5. Bacteriological Examinations The following number of specimens of materia] were collected and sent for examination to the City Laboratory, Aberdeen :— Diphtheria Throat and Nose Swabs 52 Virulence ... — Upper Respiratory Streptococci 36 Tract Vincents 3 Infections: Other Organisms 42 Whooping Cough: Throat and Nose Swabs 1 Secretions — Bacillary Dysentery: Faeces 52 Enteric and Food Blood Culture — Poisoning Infections: Widals 13 Faeces 51 Urines — Bile — Miscellaneous 1 Food 5 Gastro-Enteritis of Faeces 1 Infants: Other Specimens — Tuberculosis: Sputum 487 F aeces 1 Urines — Pus 8 C.S. Fluids - Gastric Contents — Sensitivity (Streptomycin Tests) and I.N.A.H 26 Animal Inoculations 38 Venereal Disease: Wasserman Reaction 292 Kahn Tests 290 C.S. Fluids 1 Gonococcal Compliment Fixation Tests 9 Pus Smears 1 e ■ io Culture [ for Gonococcl - 32 Serum for Spirochaetes — Leptospiral Infections. Blood Culture — Agglutination 2 C.S. Fluids — Animal Inoculations — Animal Specimens — Undulant Fever: Blood Culture ' — Agglutination 17 Animal Inoculation — Glandular Fever: Paul Bunnell Test 2 Differential Count 2