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Twenty-six children and seven members of the Day Nursery
staff were Schick tested. Twelve children and two of the staff
were found to be positive and then immunised. In all, one
hundred and twenty-six children, and two members of the Day
Nursery staff, were immunised. Four hundred and ninety-two
attendances were made for this purpose. Of the one hundred
and twenty-eight persons immunised, fifty attended for a subsequent
Schick test. In all cases they were found to be Schick
negative.
More use should be made of this Immunisation Clinic.
Advice regarding immunisation is given at all the Welfare
Centres, and leaflets are also sent to the parents of all children
to be medically examined in the Infants' Schools.
Smallpox.—There were on cases of smallpox in Wimbledon
in 1938.
Enteric Fever.—One case of enteric fever was notified.
The infection had been contracted abroad. This case terminated
fatally early in 1939.
No death occurred from enteric fever amongst Wimbledon
residents in 1938.
Food Poisoning.—One complaint was received of illness
suspected to be due to food poisoning. It was thought that his
illness might have been due to eating pork pie. Full bacteriological
investigation was made. No organisms of the food
poisoning group, however, were isolated.
Cerebro-Spinal Fever.—No case of this disease was notified
during the year. One death occurred outside the Borough of a
patient resident in Wimbledon.
Acute Poliomyelitis.—No case of poliomyelitis occurred.
Encephalitis Lethargica.-No case of encephalitis lethargica
was notified.
Erysipelas.—Notifications were received in respect of
twenty-three cases of erysipelas. In seventeen instances these
were nursed at home. Two patients requiring removal were
treated at the Kingston County Hospital, and three at the
Infectious Diseases Hospital at Clap Road.
There was one death.
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