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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 decreased from 2.81 in 1934
to 1.63 in 1935, there being 340 less cases, while the case mortality
per 100 was lowered from 5.64 to 3.50.
The Council's two diphtheria prevention clinics continue their
useful function and are well attended. The number immunised is
still too small a proportion of the population to influence materially
the incidence of the disease apart from the closed communities
in the residential schools, from which diphtheria has been conspicuously
absent since immunisation there was completed several
years ago.