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Procedure.
The routine procedure carried out was similar to that detailed in the Annual
Report for 1929 both with regard to resident and non-resident cases. The action
includes daily visits to infected houses and to business premises concerned in order
to deal promptly with any suspicious illness among contacts and also the exchange
of information with the Medical Officers of Health of the areas where patients or
contacts reside or work.
Vaccination.
The active campaign to promote vaccination referred to in the Annual Report
for 1929 was continued throughout the year; 1,634 vaccinations and revaccinations
were performed during 1930.
Under the London Government Act, 1929, as from the 1st April, 1930, the
duties of the Holborn Board of Guardians with relation to vaccination were
transferred to then Holborn Borough Council for the part of the Union in the
Holborn area, the Act providing that the functions relating to vaccination should
be discharged by the Borough Councils as functions relating to public health. The
Council delegated to the Public Health Committee its powers with respect to
vaccination and gave instructions that the Public Vaccinators and the Vaccination
Officer should be placed on the staff of the Public Health Department.
In pursuance of the powers so delegated, the Public Health Committee
appointed the following as Public Vaccinators: —
Dr. P. J. Connolly, of No. 3, Mecklenberg Square, and No. 40, Ttoseberv
Avenue, to act in the eastern half of the Borough, i.e., in St. George-the-
Martyr, North St. Andrew, South-Bast St. Andrew and Saffron Hill Wards.
Wards.
Dr. Ernest) G. Wheat, of 104, Charing Cross Boad, to act in the western
half of the Borough, i.e., in North St. Giles, Central St. Giles. Lincoln's Inn.
North Bloomsbury and South Bloomsbury Wards.
The Committee also appointed Mr. Percy E. Capps as Vaccination Officer,
an arrangement being made with the Finsbury Borough Council that Mr. Capps
should also act in that area, two-thirds of his time to be allotted to work in
Finsbury and one-third to work in Holborn.

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