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INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
(Section F.)
DIPHTHERIA IMMUNISATION.
The following are the numbers of children immunised during
1942:—
Under 5 years of age 956
Over 5 years of age 4,119
Total 2,075
VACCINATION.
The Public Vaccinators inform me that they performed vaccination
of persons in the Borough during 1941 as follows:—
Dr. E. Buckler 163
Dr. R. Mackay 370
PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS.
(PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1925, SECTION 66.)
Three cases of ophthalmia neonatorum were notified, both cases
being nursed at home.
There was no case of blindness resulting from this infection.
Cases
Vision
unimpaired.
Vision
impaired.
Total
blindness.
Deaths.
Notified.
Treated.
At home.
In hospital
or nursing
home.
3
3
0
3
0
0
0
TUBERCULOSIS.
PUBLIC HEALTH (PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS)
REGULATIONS.
No occasion has arisen in the course of the year to put these
powers into action.
There were 907 beds available solely for Middlesex under the
Middlesex County Council's scheme for the treatment of Tuberculosis
in sanatoria, namely:—
Institution
Accommodation
Type of Cage
Adults
Children
M
F
County Sanatorium,
164
220
68
Pulmonary—sanatorium
Harefield
4
4
10
,, observation
County Sanatorium,
Clare Hall
211
140
20
,, sanatorium
Danesbury Manor,
Welwyn
-
60
-
„
Victoria Home,
Windsor
—
-
6
Non-pulmonary
Patients are also sent to the Middlesex County Council's general
hospitals and to numerous other voluntary hospitals and sanatoria.