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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
Homœopathic Hospital for the Medical Officer of the Council's Immunisation Clinic
to Schick test and immunise the nursing staff were continued during 1937.
At this hospital Schick testing of all newcomers and immunisation of positives
is now customary.
From June, 1930, till the end of December, 1937, 220 nurses were tested;
16 of these were tested for the first time in 1937, 10 being positive and 6 negative.
Ten positive cases were inoculated.
Immunisation of School Children.
Attendances of London public elementary school children to be immunised
against diphtheria at Municipal Centres arc now allowed to count as attendances
at school.
Scarlet Fever.
There were 38 notifications of scarlet fever. Thirty-six were removed to
hospital. Three 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;
one was resident in Holborn.
There were no "return" cases of scarlet fever, i.e., secondary cases
occurring after the return home of the primary case. Six notifications of
" secondary " cases were received.
There was one death from this disease.
8,551 cases of scarlet fever were notified in London with 33 deaths.
Acute Rheumatism in Children.
The Holborn (Acute Rheumatism) Regulations of 1929 came into force
on the 1st April, 1929; these required 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 The regulations were superseded from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 ten cases was received in 1937.
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