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Battersea 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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Patients inoculated—
| Without test (new 125; old 5) | 130 | |
| After positive test (old patients) | 13 | |
| ,, ,, ,, (new „ ) | 219 | |
| - | 362 | |
| Inoculations— | ||
| Old patients | 23 | |
| New „ | 959 | |
| - | 982 | |
| Tests after inoculation— | ||
| Old patients | 196 | |
| New „ | 169 | |
| - | 365 | |
| (Readings—Negative, 316; positive, 6; no reading, 44), (including one of test made in 1937) | ||
| Patients immune or immunised— | ||
| On primary test (adults 2; school child-ren 28; younger children 7) | 37 | |
| After inoculation (new 143, old 174) (adults 2; school children 196; younger children 119) | 317 | |
| - | 354 | |
| Patients on register at end of year | 290 | |
| Discontinued treatment | 10 | |
The total number of patients immunised or found by test to
be immune was 354, out of a total of 594 patients who have attended
during the year (59.7 per cent.). Since the opening of the clinic
2,806 patients have attended, and of these 2,073 have been immunised
or found immune by test (73.9 per cent.).
Acute Polio-myelitis and Polio-encephalitis.
Ten cases of acute Polio-myelitis were notified during 1938,
excluding one case in which the diagnosis was not confirmed. One
death was recorded.
Cases of Polio-myelitis are also kept under observation after
they have passed the acute stage, and 37 cases were visited by the
Council's female sanitary inspectors, who paid 135 visits during the
year. At the end of the year there remained 33 cases on the
register.
One case of acute Polio-encephalitis, which proved fatal, was
notified.
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia.
Eight cases of Puerperal Fever were notified in 1938, as compared
with 3 in 1937, 3 in 1936, 4 in 1935, and 10 in 1934.
Five deaths were registered as due to this disease.
The number of notified cases per 1,000 births (live and still)
was 3.69, as compared with 1.36 in 1937, 1.37 in 1936, 1.84 in
1935, and 4.5 in 1934.