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Battersea 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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The result of the year's work is summarised as follows:—
| Sessions held | 51 |
| Patients attending in 1935 (new 495) | 618 |
| Attendances | 2,294 |
| „ (average per session) | 45.0 |
| Number of tests for susceptibility— | |
| New (including 5 second tests) | 333 |
| Old (second tests) | 8 |
| 341 | |
| (Positive 257, negative on 1st test 64, on second 11, no reading 9) | |
| Patients inoculated— | |
| Without test | 167 |
| After positive test (old patients) | 5 |
| „ (new „ ) | 257 |
| 429 | |
| Inoculations— | |
| Old patients | 51 |
| New „ | 1,237 |
| 1,288 | |
| Tests after inoculation— | |
| Old patients | 95 |
| New „ | 194 |
| 289 | |
| (Readings—Negative, 276; positive, 5; no reading, 8) | |
| Patients immune or immunised— | |
| On primary test | 64 |
| After inoculation | 276 |
| 340 | |
| Patients on register at end of year | 320* |
| Discontinued treatment | 50 |
The total number of patients immunised or found by test to
be immune was 340, out of a total of 618 patients who have attended
during the year (55 per cent.). Since the opening of the clinic
1,746 patients have attended, and of these 1,203 have been immunised
or found immune by test (68.9 per cent.).
Acute Polio-myelitis and Polio-encephalitis.
Three cases of acute Polio-myelitis were notified in Battersea
during 1935. No death was recorded.
Cases of Polio-myelitis are also kept under observation after
they have passed the acute stage, and during 1935 37 cases were
visited by the Council's woman sanitary inspector, who paid 95
visits during the year. At the end of the year there remained 34
cases on the register.
No case of acute Polio-encephalitis was notified during 1935
* Includes 3 negative cases who are to attend again for re-test.