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60
Patients inoculated—
Without test 101
After positive test (old patients) 1
„ (new „ ) 123
225
Inoculations—
Old patients 18
New „ 653
671
Tests after inoculation—
Old patients 132
New „ 90
222
(Readings—Negative, 206 ; positive, 6 ;
no reading, 10)
Patients immune or immunised—
On primary test 40
After inoculation206
246
Patients on register at end of year 193
Discontinued treatment 18
The total number of patients immunised or found by test to
be immune was 246, out of a total of 413 patients who have attended
during the year (59-6 per cent.). Since the opening of the clinic
2,014 patients have attended, and of these 1,458 have been immunised
or found immune by test (72-4 per cent.).
Acute Polio-myelitis and Polio-encephalitis.
Two cases of acute Polio-myelitis were notified in Battersea
during 1936. Two other cases (in the chronic stage) came to the
knowledge of the Department by other means, and one case formerly
notified in Battersea, returned to reside in the Borough.
No death was recorded.
Cases of Polio-myelitis are also kept under observation after
they have passed the acute stage, and during 1936 38 cases were
visited by the Council's woman sanitary inspector, who paid 112
visits during the year. At the end of the year there remained 33
cases on the register.
No case of acute Polio-encephalitis was notified during 1936.
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia.
Three cases of Puerperal Fever, one of which proved fatal,
were notified in Battersea in 1936, as compared with 4 in 1935,
10 in 1934, 3 in 1933, and 4 in 1932.
Three deaths (two of un-notified cases in which post-mortem
examinations had been carried out) were registered as due to this
disease.
The number of notified cases per 1,000 births (live and still)
was 1-37, as compared with 1-84 in 1935, 4.5 in 1934, 1-29 in
1933, and 1 -67 in 1932.