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Two deaths occurred, giving a death rate of 0.03 per
thousand of the population.
Forty-two per cent, of the cases notified were children of
school age, five to fifteen years, and of these, nine attended
the following schools:—
Dundonald Road Girls' School 1
Effra Road Infants' School 1
Wimbledon Park School 3
Schools outside the Borough 4
Total 9
Careful investigation is carried out after each case of
diphtheria has been notified. School children from infected
houses are swabbed and not re-admitted to school until a
negative result lias been obtained. These swabs are either
taken by the family doctor or by the staff of the Public
Health Department, according to the circumstances of the
case. Adult contacts living in the same house are also
advised to have swabs taken from the nose and throat and
in most cases they agree to this precaution being carried; out.
Food Poisoning.—No case of food poisoning was reported
to the Public Health Department.
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia.—In accordance
with the Public Health (Notification of Puerperal Fever and
Puerperal Pyrexia) Regulations, 1926, the Council have
appointed an obstetric physician to act as consultant in this
area. Facilities are also available for bacteriological diagnosis.
Hospital treatment is provided for at the following
institutions:—
(i) Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital Isolation
Block, Hammersmith;
(ii) Borough of Wimbledon Infectious Diseases
Hospital;
(iii) Kingston and District Hospital.
It was not found necessary to call in the obstetric
physician in consultation.
Two cases of puerperal fever and five cases of puerperal
pyrexia were notified, as compared with three cases of
puerperal fever and seven cases of puerperal pyrexia in 1932.
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