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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Twickenham 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Twickenham]
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lst Schick before Innoculation:—
Number 130
Susceptible 77
Immune 39
Failed to attend 14
Number receiving first completed
course of injections during year 881
2nd Schick Test of those who had completed first course of injections:—
Number 220
Protected 203
Susceptible 5
Failed to attend 12
All those found to be incompletely protected after the second Post Schick were
re-inoculated.
Other Infectious Diseases.
One case of paratyphoid and one case of typhoid fever were notified during September.
In neither case was the infection contracted in Twickenham. One case proved fatal.
One case of polio-encephalitis was notified in February, the patient being a woman 33
years of age, and a notification was received in reference to a case of encephalitis lethargica,
in a female patient aged 37 years.
The incidence of measles was slight and it was not found necessary to remove patients
suffering from either measles or whooping cough to the Infectious Diseases Hospital for treatment.
Two notifications of dysentery were received during November, the disease apparently
being of bacillary type. No definite source of infection could be traced.
Another case of this disease had been admitted to the West Middlesex Hospital from
the Borough for treatment a short time previously. All three patients resided in the Whitton
area, and on enquiry it was found that mild cases had occurred, but had not been of a sufficiently
severe character to require medical attention, and, in consequence, had not been notified.
Tuberculosis.
Following is a table of the notifications of new cases of tuberculosis received during the year, with the ages at the time of notification and a table of the deaths which occurred as the result of tuberculosis, with the ages at which death occurred.
| Age Periods | New Cases | Deaths | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary v | Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| Under 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| 1—5 | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | 1 |
| 5—10 | — | 3 | - | 1 | — | — | — | 2 |
| 10—15 | — | 1 | 1 | 2 | — | — | — | 1 |
| 15—20 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | — | 1 | 3 |
| 20—25 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | — | - |
| 25—35 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | — | 1 |
| 35—45 | 14 | 5 | — | 1 | o | 6 | — | 2 |
| 45—55 | 9 | 2 | 1 | — | 7 | 2 | — | — |
| 55—65 | 7 | — | — | — | 8 | 1 | — | — |
| 65 and upwards | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| Totals | 54 | 31 | 11 | 14 | 31 | 18 | 1 | 11 |
The treatment of cases of tuberculosis is carried out by Officers of the Middlesex County
Council, but all cases residing in the Borough were visited at regular intervals by the Health
Visitors of the Corporation.