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Hackney 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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During 1937 these medical practitioners referred 263 patients
to the Council's clinics for Schick testing, 46 were found to be
naturally immune and the remaining 217 returned to the medical
practitioners for injections. Since the commencement of this scheme
615 cases have received immunising injections by medical practitioners,
340 of whom have been found to be immune on postimmunisation
Schick Test, and 275 were still under the course of
immunisation at the end of 1937.
These medical practitioners' cases are included in the table of
the work carried out under the Council's immunisation scheme which
appears on page
Dr. F. Porter-Smith, the Medical Officer of the Clinic since
1928, resigned during the year and Dr. Herbert W. Swann was
appointed.
The Council has an arrangement with the Poplar Borough
Council for the immunisation of children from that Borough at a
charge of 10s. for a complete course of treatment and 2s. 6d. for a
case found to be naturally immune. 30 persons were referred to
the Clinic from the Poplar Public Health Department in 1937.

Table: The following table gives an account of the work carried out under the scheme since 1928:—

The following table gives an account of the work carried out under the scheme since 1928:—

Year.No. of New Cases.Schick Tested.Commenced treat ment without Schick Test.Naturally-Immune.Immunised.Discontinued treat ment and struck off Register.No. under treatment at end of year.
Pre-School Age.School Age.Adults.Pre- School Age.School Age.Adults
192846099350749553137745123
19294437728214707374168454193
193067514040380521221271682161369
19316471494138771631742862109282
193239810120888191146168363209
1933103321749720299128270218257567
19341012221474332841664603142108529
1935133715569812472205549505-157450
19361090192509173341153872384124672
1937183533181586811476554711671166

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A statement by the Medical Officer of the Clinic follows:—
In submitting my report upon the year's working of the Diphtheria
Immunisation Clinic may I say how pleased I am to work in a clinic so thoroughly
equipped and staffed as that at Hackney. I took over the duties from Dr.
Porter-Smith in May, 1937, and having been told by him of the large numbers
attending the Lower Clapton Road Immunisation Clinic, I anticipated some
difficulty in coping with such large numbers. However, with the facilities