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swimming baths were concerned, the Baths Superintendent in consultation with
the Medical Officer of Health, arranged for the greatest care to be taken that swimming
bath water was chlorinated at all times to what was considered to give a reasonable
margin of safety.
In conjunction with the Cleansing Superintendent, particular attention was paid
to reducing the fly incidence in connection with kitchen salvage bins by treatment
with insecticides such as D.D.T. and Gammexane, although it is considered that
such treatment cannot altogether obviate the fly nuisance with refuse of this character.
All hospitals in the Borough were kept informed periodically of the incidence
of Poliomyelitis and in view of the particular risks attached to operations for the
removal of tonsils and adenoids these were, in general, suspended at the hospitals
for the whole period of the outbreak.
Although much research is being done on the nature of Poliomyelitis and possible
means of prevention, there are at present no specific means of protection which can
be offered to the public. It is therefore only possible at present to take such general
precautions as have been mentioned above and to keep such careful account of cases
as may throw some further light, in course of time, on the means of avoidance in
the future of such outbreaks as have already occurred.
The distribution of cases is shown in the accompanying " spot " map.