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(e) Any other particulars with respect to overcrowding
conditions upon which the
Medical Officer of Health may consider it
desirable to report:—
It is to be noted in respect of 69 of the present
number of cases of overcrowding (70) that
insomuch as alternative accommodation has not
yet been provided, that the occupiers have
not infringed the provisions of the Act.
INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD.
These subjects are dealt with in the Chief Sanitary
Inspector's Report.
PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER,
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.
General.
Schick and Dick tests and artificial methods of immunization
against diphtheria and scarlet fever have not
been used.
Patients suffering from measles and whooping cough are
not admitted to the isolation hospital.
No action has been taken regarding the use of measles
serum for prophylaxis or attenuation.
Diphtheria.
Twenty-three cases were notified (compared with 18 the
previous year), two of them being nasal. Four cases occurred
in one family.