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vaccinations performed by the Medical Officer of Health during
1929:—
(a) Primary Vaccinations Nil
(b) Revaccinations Nil
Tuberculosis.
The Borough Tuberculosis Dispensary is situated at 19,
Brunswick Square.
Staff.—The staff of the Dispensary consists of a Tuberculosis
Officer, an Assistant Tuberculosis Officer, 3 Tuberculosis Health
Visitors, L part-time Dispenser, 1 Clerk (who also occupies the
position of Secretary to the Tuberculosis Care Committee), 1
Assistant Clerk, and 1 Porter.
The statistics relating to tuberculosis and the work of the
Dispensary for the year is contained in a separate section of this
report on pages 89—104.
Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1925.
No action was taken during the year under the above-named
Regulations relating to tuberculous employees in the milk trade.
NON-NOTIFIABLE DISEASES.
Measles.
Epidemics of measles happen about every two years in
London. The last epidemic occurred in 1928.
Measles, with its associated complications, is responsible for
a high mortality rate among young children, and also results in
a large number of damaged recoveries. The apathy and
ignorance of the public with regard to the serious complications
which are so likely to occur with this disease is, in these
enlightened days, deplorable, notwithstanding the endeavours
of this Department to educate the public by the systematic
distribution of health leaflets.
At the end of the year under review a scheme of control was
adopted and a plan of campaign established for the epidemic
expected to occur in 1930. This scheme of control aims at
securing through the local public health and the school organisation
services the earliest possible notification of cases to the
Medical Officer of Health; impressing on parents the fact that
measles is a dangerous disease; improving the care and nursing
of children suffering and convalescent from measles, and by
removing to hospital infected children unsuitably housed and
those suffering from complications.
The number of cases of measles which came to the knowledge
of the Public Health Department during the year through
reports from schools, parents and Health Visitors was 548.
The Department was able to secure the removal of 60 patients
to the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board for treatment.