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PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1936, SECTION 176.
On no occasion during the year was it necessary for the
Council to take steps to secure an Order for the compulsory
removal to Hospital of a person suffering from Pulmonary
Tuberculosis.
PUBLIC HEALTH (PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS)
REGULATIONS, 1925.
No action was required during the year under the powers
conferred by the above Regulations in respect of Tuberculosis
employees in the milk trade.
NON-NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
Whooping Cough. Again this year no deaths were registered
from Whooping Cough.
Influenza. Five deaths were registered as compared with
8 last year.
DIPHTHERIA IMMUNISATION CLINIC.
A Diphtheria Immunisation Clinic was established by the
Bromley Rural District Council, and was first opened on the
24th May, 1929.
The purpose of this Clinic is to test the susceptibility, or
otherwise, of children to Diptheria and to immunise those
giving a positive result.
The following is a statement of the work carried out
during the year :—
Number of sessions held 58
Number of attendances 1,923
Number of new cases 374
A similar procedure to that in the previous years has been
adhered to, viz.: Each new patient was Schick tested, and the
result read the following week. If the result was positive—
that is, if the child showed a susceptibility to Diphtheria—he
or she then received three injections of an immunising mixture
at weekly intervals. (The material used was " Toxoid-Antitoxin
Mixture," prepared by Messrs. Burroug-hs and
Wellcome). Three months later the child was asked to attend
again, and was then re-tested by the Schick method.
Practically every child then gave a negative reaction to the