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From June, 1930, till the end of December, 1935, 183 nurses were tested:
19 of these were tested for the first time in 1935. Seven being positive and twelve
negative. Five were immunised, two probationers not remaining at the hospital.
Immunisation of School Children.
Attendances of London public elementary school children to be immunised
against diphtheria at Municipal Centres are now allowed to count as attendances
at school.
Scarlet Fever.
There were 50 notifications of scarlet fever. All were removed to hospital.
Five of these were returned from hospital diagnosed as not suffering from this
disease.
From one hospital in the Borough 42 in-patients were notified as so suffering;
none were resident in Holborn.
There was no "return" case of scarlet fever. One notification of a
" secondary " case was received.
There was no death from this disease.
10,954 cases of scarlet fever were notified in London with 24 deaths.
Acute Rheumatism in Children.
The Holborn (Acute Rheumatism) Regulations of 1929 came into
force on the 1st April, 1929 ; these require the notification of acute rheumatism
in children up to the age of sixteen years. The regulations were superseded from
the 1st January, 1933, by the Holborn (Acute Rheumatism) Regulations, 1932,
which have been extended to the 31st December, 1938, by the Holborn (Acute
Rheumatism) Regulations, 1935, dated 10th December, 1935.
Acute rheumatism as defined by the Regulations means : —
(i) Rheumatic pain or arthritis, if accompanied by a rise in temperature;
(ii) Rheumatic chorea (St. Vitus' dance);
(iii) Rheumatic carditis.
Information of seventeen cases was received in 1935.