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Vaccination.
Owing to the continued lull in air raids on
London the mothers did not avail themselves of the Evacuation
Scheme to any great extent, also as the raid damaged houses
were repaired more families returned to live in Lambeth,
and the number of births in England and Wales in 1942
was the highest for 14 years. As a result the work increased
and in December, 1941, the single Vaccination Officer was
given 2 hours clerical assistance a day. In April, 1942,
this assistance was found to be insufficient and it has been
necessary to employ a whole time assistant to the Vaccination
Officer since the 4th May, 1942,
There were 1,242 successful primary vaccinations
in infants and 84 in persons over the age of one year.
Successful revaccinations numbered 64. The total number
vaccinated was 1,390 compared with 630 in the previous year.
Disinfecting Department,
There has been a marked fall again in disinfection
owing to the smaller.numbers of infectious disease
notifications. Early in the year a team composed of
medical officers, sanitary inspectors, health visitors and
disinfectors was formed to deal with louse borne typhus
fever. The team of 17 were immunised and special protective
clothing was obtained for their use, 9,029 articles were
disinfected and on 3,465 occasions wore premises visited for
various purposes in connexion with disinfection compared with
12,731 articles from 8,931 premises in the previous year.

The miscellaneous specimens consisted of
44 urines, 31 swabs for Vincent's Angina, 25 swabs for
haemolytic streptococci, 7 swabs or smears from eye or
vagina for Gonorrhoea, 2 faeces and 1 cerebro-spinal fluid.
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