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Last year I included in my Annual Report, a special report
which 1 had submitted to the Health Committee, on the Schick
test and Immunisation against Diphtheria. During the year the
Committee recommended that an Immunising Clinic be set up and
in December last this was opened on one day a week. As a
beginning notices were sent to parents of children attending one
particular school. These notices gave particulars of the Schick
test and of immunisation and invited the parents to have their
children protected. A tear off slip was attached to the notice so
that replies could be sent to the Health Centre. As soon as the
children coming from this school were completed, notices were
sent to another school and this arrangement is being continued.
The number who replied asking that their children should be
immunised was so large that it was necessary to have the clinic
open two days a week. Even then it must be understood that it is
not possible to complete the immunisation of large numbers in a
short time. For instance if a batch of say 40 children arrive one
week, they are Schick tested and have to return for the next
three weeks in succession to receive the inoculations. After
these three inoculations a period of three months elapses when the
children fire again Schick tested. If immune a certificate to that
effect is issued. The whole arrangement is working very well and
at the time of writing 39 have been immunised.