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Three months after the injections are completed, each child
receives an appointment for the Schick Test to be done, and if
satisfactory a certificate is given to the parents to this effect.
Number of Children immunised during 1935 at the
Council's Clinics 1323
Number of Children who attended for the Schick Test 1030
PLAISTOW HOSPITAL.
(Dr. D. Maclntyre, Medical Superintendent, reports as
follows:—
The number of patients under treatment during 1935 was
1,946. This is 152 less than the figure for the previous year. The
total deaths numbered 56, as compared with 75 in the previous
year, and 105 in 1933.
Scarlet fever continued prevalent during the greater part of
the year and, except during the summer months, all the cases
notified could not be admitted owing to lack of accommodation.
The total admissions were slightly less than in the previous year
and probably this indicates that the epidemic wave, which had set
in during the summer of 1933, has passed its peak. The cases
were mostly of the prevalent mild type.
The prevalence of diphtheria showed no appreciable decrease.
The admissions were 722 as compared with 777 in the previous
year. The deaths numbered 35, as compared with 37 in 1934 and
49 in 1933. A feature of the year was a marked increase in the
number of streptococcal throats admitted as diphtheria and also
in cases of mixed infection. These resulted in cases of scarlet
fever and septic throat cropping up at frequent intervals in the
diphtheria wards. During the year 21 diphtheria patients contracted
scarlet fever and 35 others developed secondary tonsillitis
during convalescence. Among these 23 developed otorrhoea.
Every facility is afforded to the medical practitioners of the
Borough for the examination of swabs from suspected cases of
diphtheria, but though this procedure has been extensively
practised by them during the post-war years it has not materially
affected either the prevalence or the fatality of the disease.
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