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proved a success during 1927. The following statistics for the
8 years 1920-1927, setting out the total numbers of visits paid by
nurses, speak for themselves:—measles and German measles,
728, 206, 722, 297, 518, 63, 939 and 206 ; whooping cough, 255,
273, 488, 400, 327, 264, 198 and 323 ; ophthalmia neonatorum (and
other forms), 2,341, 1,764, 986, 1,093, 1,537, 1,379, 1,352 and 1,538 ;
epidemic diarrhoea, 57, 232, 5, 36, 33, 30, 55 and 0 ; influenza,
343, 332, 474, 249, 487, 346, 430 and 644 ; acute primary and
influenzal pneumonia, 1.870, 2,643, 3.586, 3,333, 4,164, 4,430,
4,764 and 4,703 ; other diseases, 114, 11, 16, 186, 187, 106, 116 and
274, making totals of 5,708, 5,461, 6,277, 5,594, 7,253, 6,618,
7,854 and 7,688 visits paid respectively.*
Of the total visits (7,688) paid during 1927, 3,290 were visits
to children under 5 years of age, i.e., 42-80 percent.; dealing with
measles and German measles, 178; whooping cough, 223 ; ophthalmia
neonatorum (and other forms), 1,538; acute primary and
influenzal pneumonia (and other forms), 1,272; erysipelas 23;
chickenpox, 46 ; and pemphigus 33.
Tuberculosis.
Tables H, H (1) and H (2), which are subjoined herewith,
set out the summary of the notifications (both compulsorily notified
and voluntarily reported or heard of from other sources) under
(a) age periods and (b) registration sub-districts, with reference to
pulmonary and other forms of tuberculosis. There has been a
steady decrease of official notifications as there has been in connection
with the deaths registered from the same disease.

Lambeth Municipal Tuberculosis Dispensaries Scheme.
The Lambeth Scheme was completed by the re-organisation
and enlargement of the staff in connection with the Central Dispensary
(73, Effra Road, Brixton), in 1920 (March—April).
There are 2 Tuberculosis Dispensaries (a Central and a Branch),
the former being under the direct control of the Council and the
latter of the Governors of St. Thomas's Hospital.
*N.B.—Including 26 cases of notified puerperal pyrexia (compulsorily
notifiable since October 1st, 1926).