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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Walthamstow 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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The following were the weekly average numbers of children away from school owing to Exclusions and the Non-notifiable Infectious and other diseases named:—
| Exclusions. | Chicken-pox. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Sore Throat. | Influenza. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 111 | 56 | 151 | 66 | 26 | 80 | ||
| 1931 | 125 | 97 | 3 | 109 | 29 | 78 | ||
| Diarrhoea. | Mumps. | Ringworm. | Scabies. | Various. | Totals. | |||
| 1932 | 2 | 41 | 5 | 2 | 619 | 1159 | ||
| 1931 | 2 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 684 | 1177 | ||
A weekly Infectious Disease Clinic is held on Tuesdays at 2 p.m.
at Lloyd Park, at which all home contacts of cases of Diphtheria
and Scarlet Fever are seen, as well as all school children after
discharge from the Isolation Hospital or after Home Isolation.
Exclusion from school is rigidly enforced until all fear from
infection has disappeared.
1,026 swabs were taken at the School Clinics.
Immunisation against Diphtheria.—During the course of the
year your Authority decided to give publicity in the schools as to
the facilities for immunisation against Diphtheria provided by the
Borough Council. The steps taken included the exhibition of
notices at the Clinics and the distribution of leaflets at medical
inspection. Unfortunately, the response has been very poor.
The following table summarises the work done (including some children under 5 years of age but excluding children over school age):—
| Number of children Schick tested (a) Positive | 53 |
| 17 | |
| Number of children immunised without a Schick test | 51 |
| Number of children given 3 immunisation doses | 70 |
| „ „ 2 „ „ | 5 |
| „ „ 1 „ „ | 4 |
| Total number of children immunised wholly or partly | 79 |