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10.
PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES
Diphtheria
For the fourteenth year in succession there has been no case
of diphtheria in the borough.
Immunisation against this disease is now combined with
immunisation against whooping cough and tetanus. The number
of children receiving this triple immunisation was 703; booster
doses numbered 224.
Scarlet Fever
There were 22 cases, all of them being of a mild character,
without complication.
Of the 91 cases notified to the department, only one needed
hospital admission.
Measles serum was available to medical practitioners on
application to the Public Health Laboratory, Colindale, for the
treatment of cases and protection of contacts.
Whooping Cough
Thirty-seven cases were notified,
Immunisation against this disease is now combined with that
against diphtheria and tetanus. The number of children receiving
this triple immunisation was 703; booster doses given numbered 224.
In addition, 19 children received whooping cough immunisation alone.
Acute Poliomyelitis
There was no case of this disease during the year.

Measles
Immunisation against this condition resulted in the following
numbers of persons receiving the protection indicated:-