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lists for admission show that the demand is as great as ever. There
is a prospect that the church authorities may require possession of
the old infant school in which the St. Michael's Nursery is housed,
and a request has been made to the County Council to take the
necessary step to find a site for a new Day Nursery.

Diphtheria Immunisation.
Diphtheria Immunisation Clinics have been held regularly
throughout the year at Stuart Villa, White Hart Lane and Gordon
Road. The total number of children immunised for the first time
was 968 and in addition 54 children were immunised by private
doctors. Re-inforcing doses were given at the clinics to 632 children
who had been previously immunised, and 12 re-inforcing doses
were given by private doctors.
Immunisation has now been carried out regularly in Wood
Green since 1929, and on the whole the state of immunisation of
the child population is fairly satisfactory, although it is not as good
as I would like to see it, of children under five years. Our records
show that 59 per cent. have had a full course of immunisation, while
of children from five to fourteen 78 per cent. have been fully immunised.
So far as results go these must be regarded as satisfactory. For
the ninth year in succession no death occurred from diphtheria in Wood
Green, in 1948, and for the first time in our records no case of diphtheria
occurred during the year in the Borough.
INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
Table IV in the Appendix gives details of all the cases of infectious
disease notified during the year. The total of 762 cases is
practically the same as in 1947 when it was 753 and as in that year