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Public Health (Smallpox Prevention) Regulations, 1917.
No vaccinations were performed by the Medical Officer of
Health under the Public Health (Smallpox Prevention) Regulations,
1917.
Diphtheria.
The attack rate per 1,000 population increased from 1.92 in 1933
to 2.81 in 1934, there being 241 more cases, while the case mortality
per 100 was raised from 4.68 to 5.64. In certain districts some
alarm was raised and towards the end of the year the applications
for immunisation at the Council's clinics were greatly increased.
Immunisation was begun of the entire pupils and staff of two large
non-residential girls' schools and the resident nursing and domestic
staff of St. Thomas's Hospital in the New Year and more or less
completed since.
The small epidemic if it may be so classed has since died down.