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Food Poisoning.
Only three cases of food poisoning were notified and they were
quite unrelated to one another.
Two were caused by Salmonella typhimurium and in the third case
the causal organism was not isolated.
Scarlet Fever.
Forty-nine cases were notified compared with 24 during the
previous year. The cases were generally mild but in 10 instances
admission to hospital was thought advisable.
Pneumonia.
Twenty-five cases were notified which is a considerable increase on
previous years.
Twenty-three of these occurred in the first quarter of the year, and
eleven of them were children under the age of ten years.
Eleven were treated in hospital.
IMMUNIZATION.
Schemes for giving protective inoculations against various diseases
are administered from the Divisional Health Office, and are carried
out at the Surrey County Council Clinics.
Diphtheria and Whooping Cough.
The majority of infants are inoculated against these diseases.
Efforts are made to complete the course of injections before the end
of the first year, but the policy of using single antigens during the
warmer months makes this very difficult.
The last recorded case of diphtheria was in 1944 and the incidence
and severity of Whooping Cough have been considerably reduced in
recent years.
Tetanus.
Protection against tetanus is being requested by an increasing
number of parents. It is given combined with other antigens in the
winter quarters and singly or combined with diphtheria formol Toxoid
in summertime.