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Diphtheria Anti-toxin.—Anti-toxin is supplied, in prophylactic and
in curative doses, free of chaige to any medical practitioner requiring
it for Chelsea patients. An anti-toxin syringe, needles and steriliser are
also available. Anti-toxin can be obtained at the Public Health Department,
daily during office hours, or at any hour, day or night, at the
premises of Messrs. Timmis and Richards, Chemists, 432, King's Road,
S.W. 10. During the year, eighteen bulbs of serum were supplied to
medical practitioners, the cost to the Council being £8 19s. 7d. A s
yet no application of the Schick test or of artifical immunization against
the disease has been made in the Borough.
SCARLET FEVER.
Notifications. —During the year, 118 cases of Scarlet Fever were
notified, the figure for 1927 being 135. Information was received from
the M.A.B. Hospitals that 5 of the cases proved not to be Scarlet Fever-
No "return" case of the disease occurred during the year.
Table No. 30 shows the incidence of the disease during the past two
years, while Table No. 31 cover the quinquennial periods since 1911.
Deaths. —There was no death from Scarlet Fever during the year.

No application of the Dick test or of artificial immunization against
Scarlet Fever has yet been made in the Borough.