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dealing with large numbers it has been found that the ability
to place a patient in the Schick-negative group as we'll as
having given immunisation treatment gives the patient,
statistically, chances of avoiding the disease twice as great
again.
"A study of the incidence of Diphtheria during a period
of six years in a large city of child population of over 90,000,
of whom 18,800 received immunisation treatment, proves
statistically the value of this treatment, while still greater
benefits won by those who are definitely known to have
become Schick-negative are proved after considering 10,879
such treated and ascertained Schick-negative children. For
treated children the risk of contracting clinical Diphtheria
was less than one-third that of the untreated children. For
treated children who were also proved to have become Schicknegative
after treatment the risk was still further lowered,
so that as compared with untreated children their incidence
rate of clinical Diphtheria was less than one-sixth."—Journal
of Hygiene, July, 1937 (recent publication of experience in
City of Bristol by A. C. Mori son and L. Roberts).
ENTERIC FEVER.
Nine cases of "enteric fever" occurred during the year
(4 Paratyphoid B.; 2 Typhoid Fever). All patients were
isolated in hospital, the accommodation being at University
College Hospital for 3 cases; Wembley Hospital for 2 cases;
Middlesex Hospital for 2 cases, and 1 case each at St.
Bartholomew's Hospital and Redhill County Hospital.
One child seemed to have been infected in the Bournemouth
epidemic.
PUERPERAL FEVER.
Five cases were notified as of puerperal fever. There
was one death. All cases were treated at Queen Charlotte's
Isolation Hospital.
PUERPERAL PYREXIA.
Of the 17 cases of Puerperal Pryexia which were notified,
5 occurred at the Willesden Maternity Hospital; these
have only a statistical introduction to the Wembley records.
The 12 Wembley cases all received hospital treatment,
6 being accommodated at Queen Charlotte's Isolation Hospital;
2 at St. Mary's Hospital; 2 at Redhill County Hospital,
and one each at the Mothers' Hospital, Hackney, and at
Paddington Hospital.
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