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Number of Primary Schick Tests after 2 years:
Number positive 7
Number negative 237
- 244
Analysis of Treatment.
Secondarv Schick Tests:
A.P.T. ("A")—1 Dose 201
A.P.T. ("A")—2 Doses 188
A.P.T. ("B")—1 Dose 6
(c) Enteric Fever.
One case of Enteric Fever occurred in the early part of the
year, was removed to the Isolation Hospital, and subsequently
recovered. The patient was a man who frequently travelled
to different parts of the country, and although careful enquiries
were made, the possible source of infection was not discovered.
(d) Puerperal Pyrexia.
Three cases only were notified, but this small number is
due, no doubt, to the fact that a very large number of expectant
mothers now go to the new Maternity Hospital in the Ealing
area or to the West.Middlesex Hospital situated in the adjoining
Borough of Heston and Isleworth.
(e) Pneumonia.
The number of cases of Pneumonia and Influenzal Pneumonia
notified under the Regulations of 1927 was 24. This
figure, however, does not give a true indication of the disease
among the residents, as numbers so suffering are treated in
Hospitals and Institutions outside the area.
(f) Non- Notifiable Infectious Diseases.
Information regarding the prevalence of such diseases as
Measles, Whooping Cough, Mumps, etc., is best secured by
perusal of the Table set out on page 68 which shows exclusion
of children from school on account of these complaints.
Influenza was not prevalent and those cases which did
occur were generally of a mild type.
2. (a) Cancer.
Cancer and Malignant Disease were responsible for 1 22
deaths during the year under review, representing approximately
18 per cent, of the total deaths,