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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hammersmith 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]
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Schick Testing Clinic
| Number of Clinics held | 38 |
| (7 of these were for inspection only) | |
| Pre-Schick tests. | |
| Positive | 8 |
| Negative | 12 |
| Post-Schick tests. | |
| Positive | 8 |
| Negative | 740 |
| No reading | 26 |
| Refusals of Post-Schick Test | 108 |
| Removals—address unknown—no Post-Schick Test | 49 |
| Refusals or non-attendances (immunising agent) | 22 |
| Removed—address unknown (incomplete doses) | 20 |
| Removed—information sent on to M.O.H. concerned | 24 |
| Additional doses recommended by the Immunisation Expert—1 dose, 3; 2 doses, 1 | 4 |
| £ | s. | d. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 544 at 10s. | 272 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 at 6s. 8d. | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 83 at 3s. 4d. | 13 | 16 | 8 |
| 11 at 2s. 6d | 1 | 7 | 6 |
| £299 | 4 | 2 |
Scarlet Fever.—Three hundred and thirty-five cases
were notified as due to Scarlet Fever, against three hundred