Salmonellosis in Massachusetts

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Abstract
DURING the sixteen-year period from 1940 through 1955, the Diagnostic Laboratory of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health cultured for bacterial enteric pathogens 144,538 specimens consisting of stools, bloods, urines, pus, exudates and related material. The New York Salmonella Center at the Beth Israel Hospital typed 2625 cultures, or most of the salmonellas other than Salmonella typhi (not including repeat specimens) that have been isolated by the Diagnostic Laboratory during this period.By means of questionnaires answered by numerous health officers and their assistants, as well as physicians and nurses, the bare records of the salmonella types reported have been . . .