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City of Westminster 1927
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS
DISEASES.
The following table shows the number of cases of infectious disease
which came to the notice of the department during the period 1923-1927.
Details respecting the notifications of infectious disease received are
set out on the adjoining page.
Table XXII.
| 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1926 | 1927 | |
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| __— | _ | _ | |||
| — | — | — | — | — | |
| — | — | — | |||
| — | — | ||||
| — | — | — | — | ||
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Small-pox.—No cases of this disease were notified in Westminster
during the year. Information was received from the various Port Sanitary
Authorities of 44 contacts. The names of all contacts are circulated
by the Port Sanitary Authorities to the various districts to which they
intend to proceed, but this only applies to persons remaining on the
vessel until it reaches a port in this country. The contacts who leave
the ship en route and proceed overland are entirely lost sight of and cannot
be traced.
Vaccination.—The Vaccination Officer informs me that the following
number of persons were vaccinated by the Public Vaccinators during the
year:—
Primary 1,273
Secondary 60
These figures do not include vaccinations and re-vaccinations done
by private practitioners. No vaccination was done by the Medical
Officer of Health under the Public Health (Small-pox Protection Regulations,
1917).