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In one house there were three cases, in two houses there
were two eases, and in the remaining thirty houses, one ease.
Thirty-five or 94.59 per cent. of the patients received
hospital treatment.
Two deaths occurred, giving a death rate of 0.03 per
thousand of the population.
Of the cases notified, 62.16 per cent. were children of school
age, five to fifteen years, and of these twenty-two attended the
following schools:—
Queen's Road Infants' School 2
All Saints Junior Mixed School 5
Dundonald Junior Girls' & Infants' School 1
Cottenham Park Infants' School 1
St. Mary's R.C. School 5
Pelham Road Infants' School 2
Private Schools 6
Total 22
Careful investigation is carried out after each case of
diphtheria has been notified. School children from infected
houses are swabbed and not re-admitted to school until a
negative result has been obtained.
Diphtheria Immunisation.—Sessions of the Immunisation
Clinic were held every Saturday morning at the Health Centre.
A preliminary Schick test is carried out on all children
over seven years of age. Immunisation is effected by means of
three injections of T.A.F., with a week's interval between the
first and second injection, and a fortnight's interval between
the second and third.
In no case was any unpleasant reaction noted.
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