Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
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There is no case on record in which a child who has been inoculated
has contracted the disease of Diphtheria 8 months after inoculation,
thus proving the efficiency of the inoculation; but I have heard that
in the case of a few adults, who were found to be immune by the
Schick Test, they nevertheless did contract the disease. These were
nurses working in a Diphtheria ward. I am bound to say that in these
few exceptional cases I cannot help wondering whether this is not
associated with something connected with the technique of the test.
Here, then, is a great step forward, a weapon which has been put into
our hands to save the lives of these little ones who, in virtue of their
very helplessness, look to us with their wide-opened eyes and innocent
little faces, to guide them past the dangers and pitfalls of helpless
childhood.
1921 | 9 cases | 1924 | 20 cases |
1922 | 7 „ | 1925 | 4 „ |
1923 | 10 „ | 1926 | 2 „ |
Two cases of Enteric Fever were notified as compared with 4 in
the previous year. There were two deaths.
One of these cases was Paratyphoid. The patient, a girl of 16,
was a student at a college in London; attending this college was a
contemporary who came from a district in which Paratyphoid had been
prevalent. The other patient, a woman of 51, died. In neither case
was there any food association with the disease.
1921 | 47 notifications; | 119 deaths |
1922 | 125 ,, | 201 „ |
1923 | 74 ,, | 91 „ |
1924 | 144 ,, | 150 „ |
1925 | 153 ,, | 114 „ |
1926 | 185 ,, | 108 „ |
These diseases are compulsorily notifiable under the Public Health
(Pneumonia, Malaria, Dysentery, etc.), Regulations, 1919.
185 cases were notified during the year, as against 153 in the
previous year.
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