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PNEUMONIA, MALARIA AND DYSENTRY.
In accordance with the Regulations of 1919 some 257 cases of acute primary
pneumonia and 32 of influenzal pneumonia were certified during the year.
Of the cases of pneumonia investigated 208 were treated in St. Leonard's Hospital,
7 in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and 7 in other institutions. Some 51 were nursed
at home by relatives, nine of them with the help of the District Nursing Association.
Some 56 other cases of pneumonia also received the nursing assistance of the
Association. Altogether 892 visits were made by the nurses of the District Association
in connection with pneumonia cases. Evidence of infection was obtained in
30 of the cases investigated. In 102 instances the dwellings occupied were, satisfactory
as regards air space, light and ventilation; in 58 they were fairly so,and in 113 they
were unsatisfactory.
There were no cases of malaria, dysentery or trench fever certified.
VENEREAL DISEASES.
During the year under consideration the Health Committee, in co-operation
with the Propaganda Committee of the Shoreditch Public Welfare Association,
affiliated with the British Social Hygiene Council, made arrangements for public
lectures on the subject of the above diseases. The first of these was delivered at
the Town Hall on September 22nd to an audience of about 600, when E. B. Turner,
Esq., F.R.C.S., gave a most interesting address and explanation of a film entitled,
The Gift of Life," the same being highly appreciated by those attending.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND SCHOOLS.
The numbers of children belonging to Shoreditch who were suffering from
infectious diseases, or were resident in houses in which infectious diseases existed,
concerning whom intimations of exclusion from school were received from head
teachers in accordance with the requirements of the school management code of the
London County Council, were as follows:—Two for enteric fever, 1 for encephalitis
lethargica, 2 erysipelas, 615 for diphtheria, 778 for scarlet fever, 1,306 measles,
906 chicken-pox, 380 whooping cough, 339 mumps, and 257 for other infectious
ailments. The exclusions altogether numbered 4,586 and related to 39 schools.
The scheme referred to in the report for 1924 drawn up by the School Medical
Officer for the more effective control of measles in public elementary schools was put
into operation in connection with the infants' departments of the following schools :
In the month of January, Hoxton House ; in the month of November, Hoxton House,
Wenlock Road, St. Johns Road, Curtain Road, Canal Road and Shap Street; and in
the last month of the year, Trinity Place, Maidstone Street, Laburnum Street,
Catherine Street, Gopsall Street, Napier Street, Chatham Gardens, and Scawfell
Street.