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* Including two cases belonging to other hospitals.
Return, cases" mean cases occurring in the same house
or elsewhere and apparently traceable to the person released,
within a period of not less than twenty-four hours or not more
than twenty-eight days after his return or release from isolation.
The Medical Officer of Health visits all households where
return " cases of scarlet fever or of diphtheria have occurred,
and the infecting cases are carefully examined for some evidence
of continuing infection.
Schick testing.—A commencement has been made with the
Schick testing and subsequent immunization against diphtheria
of children brought to the various Maternity and Child Welfare
Centres, and the numbers so dealt with will be recorded in
subsequent reports.