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Of the positives:
Completed treatment 76
Under treatment at end of the year 44
Failed to come for treatment 4
Total 124
The cost of the materials for Schick testing and immunisation
during 1927 amounted to £16 7s. 1d., plus an initial outlay of
£3 19s. 5d. upon the necessary instruments.
Diphtheria Anti-toxin.— A stock is held by the Health Department
for the use of practitioners (on purchase) in the case of emergency.
Twenty phials of 2,000 units were disposed of last year,
3 being allowed free for necessitous cases.
Enteric Fever.— Two cases were notified, and both were
bacteriologically confirmed. No connection could be shewn between
them, nor was the source of infection found in either case.
Both recovered.
Puerperal Fever.— There was one case notified, and one
death. This was a physician's case, with prolonged confinement at
home, and sent into hospital two days after the birth of the child.
Puerperal Pyrexia means any febrile condition (other than a
condition which is required to be notified as Puerperal Fever)
occurring in a woman within 21 days after childbirth or miscarriage
in which a temperature of 100'4 F. (38 C.) or more has been sustained
during a period of 24 hours, or has recurred during that period.