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REPORT OF MEDICAL OFFICER IN CHARGE OF
DIPHTHERIA IMMUNISATION CLINICS
For the Year ending December 31st, 1930.
As a result of an energetic campaign instituted by the Medical
Officer of Health, ably supported by the Urban District Council,
I am enabled to place on record a highly satisfactory report of the
first year's work in connection with active immunisation against
diphtheria. The keen response of the local population affords an
example Which should act as a stimulus to the general public of
the Metropolis and to many public bodies.
During the earlier part of the year, three sessions were provided
each week at the Public Health Department Clinic at Bath
Road. These were held on Monday and Wednesday afternoons and
on Saturday mornings. As, however, the Monday and Saturday
clinics were attended by two medical officers, there was actually the
equivalent of five ordinary sessions per week. This intensive service
was provided to deal with the very large number of applicants
which was attracted by the announcement of the proposed facilities
for protection against diphtheria.
It was necessary to continue the clinics as above described until
after the summer holidays, when three sessions per week were still
held, but each was attended by only one medical officer. At the
beginning of November it was thought advisable, in the public
interest, to transfer the Saturday morning sessions to the Public
Hall, Isleworth, the other clinics on Mondays and Wednesdays remaining
at Bath Road. This is the arrangement which continues
at the time of writing this report.
The results of the year's work are possibly best appreciable in
tabular form.