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There were 124 applications granted during the year, as follows:—

Dental Treatment.
By arrangement between this Council and the County Education Authority, expectant
and nursing mothers and children under five years of age attending the Maternity
and Child Welfare Centres are enabled to have dental treatment and advice, including
if necessary the provisions of dentures.
(For statistics of dental treatment see Appendix, Table XXI. The figures show a
grand total of 659, compared with 681 for 1941.)
PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS AND OTHER
DISEASES.
The Southall Isolation Hospital continued to take cases during the year, and along
with reciprocal arrangements with the Ealing, Brentford and Chiswick Hospital, it was
possible to deal with all the cases of infectious disease notified.
As the hospital was not very full at any time during the year, it was possible to help
the Commanding Officers of various units of the Army and Royal Air Force, by taking
cases of infections from neighbouring camps into the hospital, although actually these were
not Southall cases.
Provision of Antitoxin.
The Council provides antitoxin free to local medical practitioners for cases of
diphtheria in the district.
The Ministry of Health has also sanctioned the supply of tetanus antitoxin by the
Council to local practitioners if such is required.
Diphtheria and tetanus antitoxin can always be obtained at the Health Department
during office hours or at the Isolation Hospital at other times.
Vaccination.
The total number of successful vaccination certificates received during the year
was 294, and the number of certificates of exemption issued were 168.
Table XXII in Appendix gives details of the percentage of children successfully
vaccinated during the last seven years.
Disinfection.
In cases of infectious disease, rooms, clothing, etc., are disinfected—rooms by
sealing and fumigating with formalin or a formalin preparation ; clothing, bedding, etc.,
and infected articles which can be removed for steam disinfection, by treatment in the
disinfector at the hospital.
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