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COMPLICATIONS.
Otorrhoea 1
Nephritis 1
Abscess 1
Cellulitis 1
With the exception of these four cases the others were of
a mild type, although the boy with Nephritis was very ill
indeed for a considerable period.
B. Diphtheria.
Three cases were notified during the year. One of these
children, aged 7 years, unfortunately succumbed two days after
admission to hospital following an emergency operation for
tracheotomy. It is reasonable to assume that in the future
with more intensive immunisation such disasters will be conspicuous
by their absence.
None of these three school children had had the protective
course of injections for immunisation against diphtheria.
C. Measles.
With the exception of the month of January, cases of this
disease were notified throughout the year, 195 being school
children.
The highest incidence of this disease occurred during the
months of May and June, and practically all cases were of a
mild type, only one child with the complication of pneumonia
needing hospitalisation.
D. Whooping Cough.
Thirteen cases of whooping cough in school children were
notified during the year. None of these children had been
immunised against whooping cough although one child had had
injections during the same month as it acquired the disease, the
time interval here being too short for protection to develop.
No case was severe enough as to require admission to
hospital.
E. Scabies.
The incidence of Scabies again showed an increase on the
preceding year and extensive arrangements were made to deal
with this troublesome complaint. Two weekly medical sessions
were allocated to the skin clinic which for school children was
transferred to the Erith First Aid Post. Up to the 31st
December 153 school children received treatment.