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Southwark 1933

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]

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Table: SMALLPOX.During the year under review 63 cases were notified. The number of cases notified during the last five years is as follows :—

SMALLPOX.

During the year under review 63 cases were notified. The number of cases notified during the last five years is as follows :—

19291531932161
1930106193363
193131

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SCHICK TESTING AND DIPHTHERIA PREVENTION CLINIC.
This Clinic is held every Thursday afternoon at Sutherland House.
Dr. Porter Smith is the Medical Officer in charge of the session.
The attendances are gradually increasing, inasmuch as the Council
have sanctioned another session being held in the northern part of
the Borough.
During the year 194 patients were immunised. The number tested
and immunised during the last five years is set out in the following
table:—

Table: The number of cases notified and the number of deaths during the last five years were as follows:—

The number of cases notified and the number of deaths during the last five years were as follows:—

Notified.Deaths.
19296623
19307634
19315143
19326234
193312683