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Immunisation of School Children.
Attendances of London public elementary school children to be immunised
against diphtheria at Municipal Centres are now allowed to count as attendances
at school.
Scarlet Fever.
There were 115 notifications of scarlet fever. All but one were removed to
hospital. Five of these were returned from hospital diagnosed as not suffering
from this disease.
From two hospitals in the Borough 62 in-patients were notified as so suffering;
none was resident in Holborn. There was no " return " case of scarlet fever.
Fourteen notifications of "secondary" cases were received.
There was no death from this disease.
18,238 cases of scarlet fever were notified in London with 68 deaths.
Acute Rheumatism in Children.
The Holborn (Acute Rheumatism) Regulations of 1929 came into
force on the 1st April, 1929 ; these require the notification of acute rheumatism
in children up to the age of sixteen years. The regulations were superseded from
the 1st January, 1933, by the Holborn (Acute Rheumatism) Regulations, 1932.
Acute rheumatism as defined by the Regulations means: —
(i) Rheumatic pain or arthritis, if accompanied by a rise in temperature;
(ii) Rheumatic chorea (St. Vitus' dance);
(iii) Rheumatic carditis.
Thirteen cases were notified in 1934.