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Infective Diseases.
The total number of cases, less Tuberculosis and Ophthalmia
Neonatorum, was 0,891 compared with 5,246 in 1929, 4,149 in
1928, 4,280 in 1927, and 3,316 in 1926. The decrease, compared
with 1929, is due to the decrease in the number of cases of
Whooping Cough and Influenzal Pneumonia.
Small-pox.
During the year nine cases of Small-pox occurred, compared
with 15 cases in 1929. There were no deaths.
Three of the cases occurred in one household in which the
initial case was infected from outside the Borough, and the other
two cases were infected by him.
Six of the nine patients had never been vaccinated, two
of them, both adults, had last been vaccinated in infancy, and
in one the history of vaccination was indefinite.
Vaccination.
Transfer of Officers.
Under the Local Government Act, 1929, Vaccination Officers
and Public Vaccinators have been transferred from the Board
of Guardians to the Council. The work of these officers is now
controlled by the Public Health Committee.
A list of the officers concerned is included under Staff on
Page 92.
Table XII. is taken from the official returns of the Vaccination
Officers for the year 1929. It shows the number of
children successfully vaccinated for the whole Borough, as well
as for the separate sub-districts.
The percentage of children vaccinated to total births was
53.6:—in Clapham, 53.2; in Putney, 69.4; in Balham, 51.9;
in Streatham, 49.6; in Tooting, 37.9; and in Wandsworth,
60.2. This percentage is lower than that recorded last year.
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