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The Hospital accommodation available for the Borough,
both for notifiable and non-notifiable infectious cases, is not
only ample but up-to-date in every way.
The Annual Report of the Medical Superintendent of the
Joint Hospitals under the control of the Ealing and Brentford
and Chiswick Hospitals Committee which is appended to this
report by courtesy of Dr. T. Orr, the Medical Superintendent,
serves to show how the available accommodation was utilised
during the past year.
Reviewing the incidence etc. of the principal notifiable
diseases:
(a) Scarlet Fever.
The number of cases of this disease notified during the
year is 81, which shows a considerable falling-off from the
previous year, when 201 cases were notified. This figure of 81
gives an attack rate of under 1.4 per 1,000 of the population.
Sixty-eight of the cases notified received Hospital treatment.
So far as this disease is concerned, during the past few years
the numbers notified have been fairly constant from year to
year, and the epidemics at one time experienced, followed by
years of comparative freedom, seem to be a thing of the past.
(b) Diphtheria.
The incidence of this disease in the Borough during the
past year was much greater than in the two previous years.
Actually, 85 cases were notified, giving an attack rate of
under 1.4 per 1,000 of the population. Of this number, 83
received hospital treatment.
Anti-toxin is supplied free to medical practitioners, but it
would seem that they do not avail themselves of the service to
any extent, probably owing to the very prompt removal of
diagnosed cases to hospital. The cost of anti-toxin purchased
during the year was £7 14s. 0d.
No cases were notified of children contracting Diphtheria who
had been immunised previously.
Dr. W. W. King-Brown, the Specialist in charge of the
Council's Immunisation Clinic, has kindly furnished me with
the report hereunder, respecting the working of the Clinic
during the past year.