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Number of persons who have attended for immunisation since
commencement of scheme (including Schick negatives,
uncompleted cases and defaulters) 1,797
Results of Schick Test after Three Months (1936).
Negatives 335
Positives 34
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Further Results of the 34 "Positives" —
After 4th injection :—
Negatives 29
Positives 5
After 5th injection:—
Negatives 5
Positives Nil
Number of Cases failing to complete Immunisation (1936) 29
Before three injections 13
After three injections 16
Total number of visits paid to schools and Clinic for purposes
of immunisation (1936) 1,697
Total number of visits paid to schools and Clinic for purposes
of immunisation since inception of scheme 8,430
Number of cases to be completed in 1937 81

So far as can be ascertained, not a single child immunised
against diphtheria during 1936 developed clinical diphtheria.
Typhoid Fever (including Paratyphoid).—Eight cases of
typhoid fever and two of paratyphoid B fever were notified during
the year. In six of these cases, the infection was contracted during
the widespread epidemic in the Bournemouth district which
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