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In 1945, under the arrangements mentioned in the 1935 Report, 17
private doctors were supplied with prophylactic for the immunisation of
134 children (129 under 5 years and 5 over 5 years of age). The following
is a brief summary:—
1944 Cases:
Final Schick Test in 1945:—
Negative 16
Positive and re-inoculated 2
Positive and not re-inoculated (left district) 1
No final Schick Test, left district, etc. 2
1945 Cases:
Numbers inoculated (full course) by medical practitioners 119
Final Schick Test—Negative 78
Positive and re-inoculated 3
No final Schick Test, left district, etc. 7
Forms not yet returned 12
To be Schick Tested in 1946 19
(d) Ophthalmia Neonatorum.—3 cases were notified during 1945. Of
these 2 were treated at home by private medical practitioners, and 1 at
Goodmayes Emergency Hospital, where the infant had been transferred from
the Out-Patient Department, Moorfields Hospital.
Cases
Vision Unimpaired
Vision
Impaired
Total
Blindness
Deaths
Notified
Treated
At Home
In Hospital
3
2
1
3
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-
-
(e) Enteric Fever.—One case of this disease was notified during the
year. This occurred at Claybury Mental Hospital.
(f) Typhus Fever.—Notice of the arrival of 24 persons in this country
from areas infected with Typhus Fever were received. These persons were
visited by the Sanitary Inspectors; 86 visits were made.
(g) Scabies Order, 1941 (dated 28th October, 1941).—186cases of Scabies
(43 adults and 143 children) were reported. Seven Ilford residents were
admitted to the Isolation Hospital during the year.