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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 Hospital, under the control of the Ealing and Brentford
Hospitals Committee, was submitted to that Committee in the
form of a special report and is therefore not included in this
report. No doubt after the termination of the war, thn Medical
Superintendent will issue a comprehensive report dealing with
the Hospitals' activities during the whole war period.
Notes on the incidence etc., of the principal notifiable diseasess-
(1) Scarlet Fever.
Number of cases notified during year = 123
Attack rate per 1,000 of population = 2.0
Number of cases receiving hospital treatment = 101
(2) (a) Diphtheriat:-
Number of cases notified during year = 30
Attack rate per 1,000 of population = 49
Number of cases receiving hospital treatment = 29
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(b) Diphtheria Immunization Clinic.
This Clinic operated over a period of 7 months only up to
the time of the Mid-Summer school holidays.
Number of Clinics held = 25
Number of children attending = 400
Number of attendances made = 1560
Average attendance per clinic = 61
Number of certificates issued = 290
No child immunized during this or previous years was
notified as suffering from Diphtheria.
Prevention of Blindness.
No action was taken under Section 176 of the Public
Health Act, 1936 for the prevention of blindness or for the treatment
of persons suffering from any disease or injury to the eyes.
Tuberculosis.
No action was necessary or taken by the Authority under the
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations 1925, or under Section 172
of the Public Health Act, 1936.
The following Table gives particulars of new cases of
Tuberculosis both pulmonary and non-pulmonary, notified during 193ri ,
as well as particulars of deaths which occurred as a result of the
disease.