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Number of porsonal visits made during the year ... 697
Cases notified from other Boroughs for enquiry ... 173
Certificates of exemption granted after declaration 33
Scarlet Fever:
The number of cases notified during 1942, namely 33, was
apporo ximately half that for the previous year. All the cases
were removed to Hospital and the average length of stay in
Hospital was 28 days. There were no deaths from this disease.
Routine visits to pationts following discharge were continued.
Diphtheria:

Further efforts were made during the year to secure a greater
degree of immunisation in the child population by display of posters,
distribution of loaflate, show of films, advertisemants in the local
pross, and work by the Health Visitors. A new method of intensive
visiting by Health Visitors and Sanitary Ins pecters was tried in a
street or block where a case of diphthoria occurred. When unimmunised
children were found efforts were made to persuade the parents to agree
to immunisation and appointments made to have this carried out. The
success of these various measures can be judged by the fact that in
1942, 1,148 children under 15 years of age were immunisod, 361 under
5 years find 787 between 5 and 15 years. The figures for 1941 were
675 children, 255 under 5 years and 420 between 5 and 15 years. It
was eatimated that by the and of 1942 approximately 48% of the total
child population under 15 years had been treated.