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Diphtheria is always a serious disease in a child and causes
great anxiety to the parents, but it can be avoided by
immunisation-injections.
This freedom takes some weeks to develop after the
treatment has been given so that it is unwise to put off until
there has been actual exposure to the disease or an outbreak
in the Borough.
Enteric Fever.—Three cases of enteric fever occurred during
the year (2 para-typhoid B and one of the mixed infection
of typhoid fever and para-typhoid (B). Two of the cases were
removed to hospital, one to the Willesden Isolation Hospital,
the other to the Ealing Isolation Hospital. The third case was
isolated at home. There were no deaths.
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia.—Reference has already been
made to these diseases on page 48. Six cases were notified as
puerperal fever. Five of these were removed to Queen Charlotte's
Isolation Hospital and one was nursed at home.
Seventeen cases of puerperal pyrexia were notified, one of
which occurred in Willesden Maternity Hospital. Five cases
were nursed at home; four were removed to Queen Charlotte’s
Isolation Block; one to the Mothers' Hospital; two to Redhill
Hospital; two to St. Mary's Hospital; one to West Middlesex
County Hospital; and one to St. George's Hospital.
No deaths from puerperal sepsis were recorded in 1937.
Pneumonia.—Pneumonia was notified concerning the illness
of 115 persons. Reference to the Liiiuenza epidemic throughout
the country at the end of 1936 and the beginning of 1937 was
made in the Annual Report for 1936. During 1937 pneumonia
(all forms) accounted for the deaths of 55 persons, while influenza
was the cause of 36 other deaths.
Wembley seems to have suffered from the influenza epidemic
in the early part of the year very similarly to the country as a
whole. (See table, page 15).
Erysipelas.—24 cases of erysipelas occurred, of which 11 were
nursed at home. Of the 13 cases treated in hospital 1 was
accommodated at Redhill County, 1 at University College, 4 at
Willesden Isolation and 7 at Acton Isolation Hospitals. There
were no deaths.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.—Three cases were notified in
1937, and in each case the child was treated at home under the
family doctor. The vision in all cases was unimpaired.
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