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The preventive measures taken during 1926 have been similar
to those followed in the past five years; full details of these have
been given in previous annual reports.
Use has not so far been made of the Schick test nor of the
recently developed artificial methods of immunisation against
diphtheria.
Diphtheria antitoxin is supplied to Medical Practitioners
applying for it for their patients resident in this District; a supply
is immediately available on application at the Isolation Hospital.
Antitoxin supplied in this way is charged for at cost price unless
the patient to whom it. was administered is subsequently admitted
to the Isolation Hospital, in which case no charge is made.
Scarlet Fever.—The incidence of scarlet fever during 1926 was
about the average for the District; the disease was most prevalent
during the first three months of the year.
Eighty cases were notified and seventy-one of these were
removed to the Isolation Hospital.
The prevalence of scarlet fever and the mortality from this
disease during the year 1926, and for the previous 10 years will
be seen from details given in the Table below.

The incidence rate (cases per 1,000 of the population) in
Barnes was 2.21, the rate for London being 2.69, and that for
England and Wales. 2.09.