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other times adults, but on all sides it would seem that theft of
this sort is coming to be regarded as of little consequence instead
of as crime, and its perpetrators criminals.
Immunisation against diphtheria is a condition of entry into
any nursery and on the instructions of the Council, because the
parents refused to allow this to be done, a child was excluded on
the grounds that he was more liable to contract the disease and
might thereby endanger the health of other children in the nursery.
Morbidity from infectious disease has been low throughout the
year among the nursery population.
All members of the nursery staff have an X-ray photograph of
the chest taken annually in order to exclude the possibility of a
sufferer from pulmonary tuberculosis infecting the children. It is
of interest to note that one girl who was free in January succumbed
to the disease in May and died in October.
Summary of Work Done by the Official
Health Visitors
Ante-natal visits 2,024
Ante-natal revisits 227
Births, 1st visits 104
Births, revisits 261
Births, stillborn 6
Ophthalmia, 1st visits 80
Ophthalmia, revisits 64
Infantile deaths, visits 2
Welfare Centres attendances 258
Diphtheria prevention clinic attendances 202
Post-natal visits 95
Visits to children 1-5 years 783
Puerperal Pyrexia visits 26
Puerperal Pyrexia, revisits 11
Special visits: evacuation, scabies, etc. 1,240
Sanitary Circumstances of the Area
Sanitary Inspectors.
Total number of inspections (including war damage
to property, etc.) 15 854
Total number of reinspections 27 353
Total number of intimation notices served 8 653
Total number of nuisance notices served 8,520