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CHAPTER V.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
1. SERVICES PROVIDED, Notification, investigation,
pamphlets issued ion the various infectious diseases, exclusion
from school of patients and contacts, advice re milk handlers—
Disinfection — Hospitalisation generally at Hendon Isolation
Hospital, re puerperal pyrexia and ophthalmia neonatorum, London
County Council, re poliomyelitis a't Royal National Orthopaedic
Hospital, re smallpox, Middlesex County Council—Notification of
tuberculosis—-Compilation of tuberculosis register—Weekly and
quarterly returns to Ministry of Health and County Medical
Officer—Preventive medicine, diphtheria immunisation, antityphoid
inoculation, whooping cough immunisation (for children
about to enter, or in, Day Nurseries), anti-smallpox vaccination—
Food poisoning notification and investigation—Scabies, arrangements
with Wembley Hospital and Royal Borough of Kensington
—Complete bacteriological service available at Central Public
Laboratory Colindale, outfits distributed from Public Health
Department—anti-toxins available diphtheria, tetanus, scarlatina,
meningococcus.
2. DEVELOPMENT 10 YEARS, 1936- 1946, (a) New
services provided—Preventive schemes diphtheria, typhoid, whooping
cough, smallpox, notification of food poisoning, treatment of
scabies; (b) Expansion of existing services—Complete Specialist
Laboratory Service:-
Throat and Dysentery-like
nose swab Blood group,
examinations, examinations, examinations.
1936 675 15
1946 956 375 341
Pamphlets are the infectious diseases, local monthly bulletin to
Medical Profession.
3. A scrutiny of the notifications of infectious diseases shows
a general rise in the number of cases of scarlet fever over the
figure for 1945 without there being, however, any special local
epidemic. The number of cases of diphtheria remained persistently
low, in the last five years there were 12, 17, 6, 4, 10, cases
notified. The winter respiratory diseases were about the same as
in normal years, the last rise having occurred in the winter 19431944
when the figures were about 50% increase upon the normal.
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