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The total number of patients immunised or found by test to
be immune was 261, out of a total of 520 patients who have attended
during the year (50·2 per cent.). Since the opening of the clinic
2,406 patients have attended, and of these 1,719 have been immunised
or found immune by test (71·4 per cent.).
Acute Polio-myelitis and Polio-encephalitis.
Two cases of acute Polio-myelitis were notified in Battersea
during 1937. Three other cases (in the chronic stage) came to the
knowledge of the Department by other means. No death was
recorded.
Cases of Polio-myelitis are also kept under observation after
they have passed the acute stage, and during 1937 37 cases were
visited by the Council's woman sanitary inspector, who paid 113
visits during the year. At the end of the year there remained 27
cases on the register.
One case of acute Polio-encephalitis, which proved fatal, was
notified.
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia.
Three cases of Puerperal Fever were notified in Battersea
in 1937, as compared with 3 in 1936, 4 in 1935, 10 in 1934, and
3 in 1933.
No death was registered as due to this disease in 1937.
The number of notified cases per 1,000 births (live and still)
was 1·36, as compared with 1·37 in 1936, 1·84 in 1935, 4·5 in
1934, and 1·29 in 1933.