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Diphtheria. .- The number of cases of diphtheria showed a
marked decrease, there being twenty-four notifications in 1939 as .
compared with thirty-seven in the previous year. The attack rate
was 0.42 per thousand of the population.
All the patients received hospital treatment. There were
no deaths.
Diphtheria Immunisation. - Sessions of the Immunisation Clinic
Were held every Saturday morning at the Health Centre.
Four children were Schick tested. Two were found to be
positive and then immunised. The total number of children immunised
was ninety-seven. In addition, five members of the nursing staff
were Schick tested, threeof whom were positive and then immunised.
In all, two hundred and eighty-six attendances were made for this
purpose. Of the one hundred persons immunised, twenty-five attended
for a subsequent Schick test. In all cases they were found to be
Schick negative.
Enteric Fever.- Two cases of paratyphoid fever were notified.
One death occurred from enteric fever. This was a case
notified in the latter part of the previous year.
Food Poisoning.- This became a notifiable disease on 3rd October,
1939. Ho notification was received during the year.
Cerebro-Spinal Fever.- Three cases of this disease were
notified. One patient was treated in hospital. There were two
deaths.
Acute Poliomyelitis.- Three cases of poliomyelitis occurred.
Erysipelas. Notifications were received in respect of eight
cases of erysipelas. Two patients were treated in Hospital.
Puerperal Pyrexia.- Seven cases of puerperal pyrexia were
notified. Two of these "patients were removed to the Queen Charlotte's
Maternity Hospital Isolation Block, Hammersmith.
There was no death from puerperal sepsis amongst the seven
patients notified under the Regulations.
The cost to the Council in respect of these patients was
£9.19s.6d., of which amount £3.3s.0d. was recovered from the patients
or their relatives.
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