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Immunisation of Nursing Staff at the London Homoeopathic Hospital.
The arrangements made in June, 1930, with the authorities of the London
Homoeopathic Hospital for the Medical Officer of the Council's Immunisation Clinic
to Schick test and immunise the nursing staff were continued during 1936.
At this hospital Schick testing of all newcomers and immunisation of positives
is now customary.
From June, 1930, till the end of December, 1936, 204 nurses were tested;
21 of these were tested for the first time in 1936, 12 being positive and 9 negative.
Nine were inoculated, three 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 67 notifications of scarlet fever. Sixty-four were removed to
hospital. Seven of these were returned from hospital diagnosed as not suffering
from this disease.
From one hospital in the Borough 22 in-patients were notified as so suffering;
none was resident in Holborn.
There were two " return " cases of scarlet fever, i.e., secondary cases
occurring after the return home of the primary case. In one of the two, however,
the primary patient was not removed from Holborn although he returned to
Holborn from hospital to the home address to which his parents had removed.
Seven notifications of " secondary " cases were received.
There was no death from this disease.
10,705 cases of scarlet fever were notified in London with 42 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 The regulations were superseded from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.