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Acton 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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Return showing the number of persons successfully vaccinated and re-vaccinated at the cost of the rates by the Medical Officers of Institutions and the Public Vaccinators during the year ended 30th September, 1936 :—
| Name of Institution or Vaccination District. | Name of the Medical Officer or Public Vaccinator. | Nos. of Successful Primary Vaccinations of Persons. | No. of Successful Re-vaocinations, i.e., Successful Vaccination of Persons who had been Successfully Vaccinated at some previous time. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under one year of age. | One year and upwards. | Total. | |||
| Ward 1 | Dr. N. J. Goodchild. | 159 | 16 | 175 | 3 |
| „ 2 | „ F. L. Pelly | 124 | 25 | 149 | 6 |
| Wards 3 and 4 | „ J. W. Wigg | 307 | 36 | 343 | 10 |
| „ 5, 6, and 7 | „ A. E. Tait | 251 | 36 | 287 | 13 |
| Ward 8 | „ C. H. Alderton | 104 | 21 | 125 | 8 |
| St. Pancras Hospital | ,, W. Feldman | 7 | — | 7 | - |
| Totals | 952 | 134 | 1086 | 40 | |
SCARLET FEVER.
The number of cases notified was 434, as compared with 354 cases during the previous
year. It was subsequently ascertained that 40 cases were not regarded as cases of this disease.
The actual number of cases was therefore 394. Six deaths occurred; this equals a case
mortality of 1.5 per hundred cases.
Return Cases.—This term is applied to cases of Scarlet Fever which occur in a house
within 28 days of the return from hospital of a previous case. There were 11 such cases
during the year.
Multiple cases in one house—that is, several cases occurring more or less together—are
not as frequent as one might expect. In 22 families there were two such cases, in three
families three, and in one family there were four multiple cases, in each home.
DIPHTHERIA.
The number of cases notified was 487, as compared with 440 cases during the previous
year. It was subsequently reported by the hospital authorities that 101 cases were not regarded
as cases of this disease. The actual number of cases was therefore 386. This equals an
attack rate of 2.1 per 1,000 of population. Eight deaths occurred, giving a case
mortality of 21 per cent.
Investigation of multiple cases—that is, several cases occurring more or less together
in one house —shows that in 25 families there were two such cases, and in two families
three such cases in each home.
Antitoxin for the treatment of necessitous cases of this disease is supplied to medical
practitioners free of charge by the Council. During the year 142 thousand units were
provided,