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In addition to the foregoing, The London County Council makes provision for
doctors of laboratory facilities for aid in diagnosis, supply of salvarsan and its substitutes,
provision of instruction for practitioners and students and co-ordinates the
work of Hospitals, Public Health Services and practitioners. The Council also
undertakes publicity and propaganda work with regard to matters relating to
venereal diseases.
A Shoreditch Propaganda Committee associated with the Shoreditch Public
Welfare Association and working in close co-operation with the British Social Hygiene
Council made arrangements in connection with the following film lectures, at the Town
Hall:—Dr. Otto May—The Dangers of Ignorance. Film, Whatsoever a Man Soweth ;
Dr. I. Feldman—The Shadow.
At the Welfare Centre, Kingsland Road, Dr. Rose Turner delivered a series
of four lectures (for women only), dalling mainly, though not exclusively, with the
subject of venereal disease. No film was shown at the first lecture. The following
films were shown at the other lectures:—The Gift of Life, Public Health, Twins at
Work, Clean Milk and Care of the Teeth, The Shadow.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND SCHOOLS.
The numbers of children suffering from infectious diseases or resident in houses
in which infectious diseases existed, concerning whom intimations of exclusion from
school were received, in accordance with the requirements of the School Management
Code of the London County Council, were as follows: diphtheria 740, scarlet fever
639, measles 519, chicken pox 638, whooping cough 440, mumps 461 and 343 of
other infectious diseases. The exclusions altogether numbered 3,780 and related to
38 schools.
The scheme for the more effective control of measles in public Elementary
Schools, referred to in previous reports, was reintroduced in a modified form in
December. Under the new arrangements leaflets prepared in the Health Department
are handed to the head teachers for distribution in the schools affected.
A number of intimations were received as to investigations by the School Medical
Authorities in consequence of the occurrence of cases of scarlet fever and diphtheria
amongst children attending some of the schools in the Borough. In only a few
instances was it found necessary to exclude any of the children.
Information was also received from the School Medical Officer relative to the
exclusions from school of 36 children on account of the presence of diphtheria bacilli
in their noses or throats. The families, residents in some twenty-eight houses, to
which the children belonged, were kept under observation; in one instance a case
of diphtheria was subsequently notified amongst the residents in the house.
BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS.
During the year some 1,133 examinations were made. Dr. J. Andrew made 717
of these at his laboratory in Kingsland Road and Dr. F. H. Teale 416 at the University
College Hospital Medical School. Of these 792 were for suspected diphtheria, 11 for