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ARTIFICIAL PNEUMOTHORAX:
131 patients received treatment at a total cost of £648.18.0.
EXTRA NOURISHMENT:
82 cases received extra nourishment at a total cost of £433.1.5.
BEDS AND BEDDING:
12 patients were provided with bed and bedding on loan.
DENTAL TREATMENT:
9 patients received treatment with assistance under the Council's scheme.

(Figures in brackets are notifications for 1944).
SMALLPOX. AND VACCINATION:
No case of smallpox was notified. Of the 4,155 births; returned on
the "Birth List Sheets" during 1944, 1989 were successfully vaccinated. In
addition, 1202 children, whose births occurred elsewhere, were vaccinated in
the Borough.
TYPHUS FEVER-IMMUNISATION:
Owing to military operations during this year having increased the
possible accidental introduction of the disease, immunisation against typhus
was offered to and accepted by those members of the Public Health Staff who
might have had to deal with the contacts of such cases if they had occurred.
Immunisation was done at the London Hospital.
MEASLES PREVENTION AND MODIFICATION:
In the early part of 1945 & small supply of blood plasma concentrate
containing Gamma Globulin antibodies became available through the courtesy of
Dr. N. Bogg, Medical Superintendent of the Eastern Hospital. Supplies of this
substance were limited and its use therefore had to be restricted to children:
who had been, in intimate contact with a case of measles and for whom on account of
age or dobility, it was especially desirable to prevent or modify an attack.
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