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SMALL-POX
Four cases of Small-pox occurred during the year in persons not resident but employed
in the City Sixty-six contacts were kept under observation, including those who had
been in contact with cases not resident or employed in the City
The customary disinfection, where necessary, was carried out
NURSING PROVISIONS
Measles, etc—The Corporation has approved of the expenditure of £25 per annum in
respect of the nursing of complicated cases of Measles, Encephalitis Lethargica and Cerebrospinal
Fever, and have also agreed to expend the sum of £30 on provision of medical assistance
and nursing attendance in necessitous cases of Influenza No action was necessary under
this heading during 1934
DISTRIBUTION OF DIPHTHERIA ANTI-TOXIN AND ANTI-INFLUENZA VACCINE
Although City medical practitioners are well aware of the facilities available, only two
applications for supplies of diphtheria anti-toxin were received during 1934
No applications in regard to anti-influenza vaccine were received
EXAMINATION OF PATHOGENIC BACTERIA
Any medical practitioner desiring examination of specimens for pathogenic bacteria
in cases of suspected infectious disease occurring amongst their patients residing in the
City may forward them to me at the Guildhall Arrangements have been made for free
examination, and the result obtained is communicated immediately to the medical practitioner
in attendance During the year, the following specimens were so dealt with
It will be seen that positive results were obtained in 13.5 per cent. of these cases
Specimens Disease Suspected Result Positive Negative
35 Swabbings from throats Diphtheria 4 31
2 Sputa Tuberculosis 1 1
PROVISION OF INSULIN
In accordance with the request made by the Authorities of the University College
Hospital, Insulin has been supplied to one patient resident in the City, and in attendance
at that hospital The Corporation have power to make this provision under Section 77
of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, with the approval of the Ministry of Health, but,
so far as I am aware, this is the first patient in regard to whom such powers have been put
into operation The arrangement has worked satisfactorily
PUBLIC HEALTH (PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS, 1925
It has not been necessary during the year to take any action in regard to the abovementioned
Regulations, which provide for the exercise of some control over persons suffering
from Tuberculous affections and who are engaged in certain occupations associated with the
milk trade
TUBERCULOSIS DISPENSARY—TRAINING OF HEALTH VISITORS
The facilities available at the Tuberculosis Dispensary are placed at the disposal of the
College of Nursing in order that that body can give to their health-visitor students a short
course of practical experience in tuberculosis work as undertaken by a tuberculosis nurse
This facility is of considerable value in the training of health visitors and is much appreciated
During 1934, 20 students attended for demonstrations
POST-GRADUATE NURSING COURSE
With the approval of your Committee, your Tuberculosis Sister and Health Visitor
attended a special post-graduate course of nursing organised by the College of Nursing in
June last
PUBLIC HEALTH (TREATMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE) REGULATIONS, 1934
These Regulations came into force on the 1st July and give to county councils and the
council of every borough or urban or rural district council and every joint hospital board
constituted under the Public Health Act, 1875, having the powers of Section 131 of that Act,
the same powers and duties in relation to the provision of hospitals or temporary places
for the use of persons who are for the time being within their county borough or district,
as the case may be, and are suffering from an infectious disease, as they have for the use
of the inhabitants of that county borough or district
The Ministry of Health points out in this connection that the primary purposes of
these Regulations is prevention of spread, and the responsible body in any district, having
provided proper treatment for the inhabitants in and of that district, should logically be
enabled to deal with infectious disease in persons who are in but not of the district, and
the Regulations constitute a very desirable addition to the public health powers