Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Heston and Isleworth]
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Secondary Inoculation courses of T.A.M.
Number given 1 further injection of 1c.c. 7
Number given 2 further injections of 1 c.c. 130
Number given 3 further injections of 1 c.c. 14
Total 151
Number of certificates given during 1931 1367
G.Bousfield, M.D., Lond.
Diphtheria Antitoxin.
Boxes containing a Sterile Antitoxin syringe and the necessary
dressings, etc., are kept at the Hounslow Police Station so as
to be available in case of emergency. During 1931, 28 vials of
Antitoxin of 8,000 units each were supplied to medical practitioners.
Smallpox.
No cases were notified during the year 1931..
Enteric Fever.
There were 3 cases notified during the year, all were Paratyphoid
B. One of the cases, notified from the West Middlesex
Hospital was admitted from outside this district.
Erysipelas.
Thirty-nine cases of this disease were notified, of whom 26 were
of cases in the West Middlesex Hospital. Nineteen were non-residents
in this district.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
See page 99.
Puerperal Fever.
Five cases of this disease were notified. One notification
referred to a patient from this district, who was confined in a