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Wandsworth 1945
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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DISTRICT NURSING.
The Council has an arrangement with the various Nursing
Associations in the Borough for a nurse to attend patients
suffering from certain infectious diseases and minor ailments.
6,133 visits were made during the year.
TREATMENT OF SPECIAL DISEASES.
16 persons received treatment for diabetes and one for
pernicious anæmia at the Council's expense. The cost during
the year was £81. 14s. 4d.
PREVENTION OF DIPHTHERIA
There has been an increase in the number of attendances
at these Clinics as compared with 1944. 2.827 persons
attended the Borough Council Clinics as compared with 1,777
in the previous year, and 3,134 in 1943. The number of
children who attended the Clinics held at the L.CC. Schools
has fallen from 525 to 266.
At the close of 1945, the Borough Council had seven Clinics
in operation, eight sessions being held every week.
The Immunising Agent.
The solution now used for routine immunisation is alum
precipitated toxoid (A.P.T.) and two injections of ½c.c,, each are
given at monthly intervals. For persons over the age of 15,
three injections, each of 1 c.c., of toxoid anti-toxin floccules
(T.A.F.) are given.
The total number of children immunised during the year was:—
| At the Borough Council's Clinics | 2,561 | ||
| At L.C.C. Clinics | 266 | ||
| Total | 2,827 | ||
PREVENTION OF WHOOPING COUGH.
Immunisation of children against whooping cough is now
carried out at the Diphtheria Immunisation Clinics, when
parents wish to have it done.