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CHAPTER III.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
1. SERVICES PROVIDED, Notification, investigation,
pamphlets issued on the various infectious diseases, exclusion from
school of patients and contacts, advice re milk handlers—Disinfection
—Hospitalisation generally at Neasden Hospital or West Hendon
Hospital, re puerperal pyrexia and ophthalmia neonatorum, Emergency
Bed Service, re smallpox as arranged by the Regional Hospital
Board — Notification of tuberculosis — Authentication of travellers'
inoculation state — Food poisoning notification and investigation —
Scabies, arrangements with the Middlesex County Council —
Complete bacteriological service available at Central Public Health
Laboratory, Colindale, outfits distributed from Public Health Department.
2. INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATES OF IMMUNISATION.
The Department continues to authenticate the International
Certificates of Vaccination for travellers who have received inoculations
from Wembley practitioners. It is necessary sometimes to
arrange for immediate attention to these documents as, for example,
the traveller who late one evening required a signature before
6.00 a.m. the following day. He was travelling to Australia by boat
and it was suggested he could leave a forwarding address of the
Shipping Agents at Port Said or some Port en route, and the
authenticated document would be forwarded to the agents by
registered air mail for collection on arrival. These arrangements,
however, were not acceptable to the traveller and ultimately the
certificate was authenticated and signed at 10.00 p.m.
During the year 931 certificates received attention in the
Department.
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