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There is no case on record in which a child who has been inoculated
has contracted the disease of Diphtheria 8 months after inoculation,
thus proving the efficiency of the inoculation; but I have heard that
in the case of a few adults, who were found to be immune by the
Schick Test, they nevertheless did contract the disease. These were
nurses working in a Diphtheria ward. I am bound to say that in these
few exceptional cases I cannot help wondering whether this is not
associated with something connected with the technique of the test.
Here, then, is a great step forward, a weapon which has been put into
our hands to save the lives of these little ones who, in virtue of their
very helplessness, look to us with their wide-opened eyes and innocent
little faces, to guide them past the dangers and pitfalls of helpless
childhood.

Two cases of Enteric Fever were notified as compared with 4 in
the previous year. There were two deaths.
One of these cases was Paratyphoid. The patient, a girl of 16,
was a student at a college in London; attending this college was a
contemporary who came from a district in which Paratyphoid had been
prevalent. The other patient, a woman of 51, died. In neither case
was there any food association with the disease.

These diseases are compulsorily notifiable under the Public Health
(Pneumonia, Malaria, Dysentery, etc.), Regulations, 1919.
185 cases were notified during the year, as against 153 in the
previous year.
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