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Deptford 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Deptford, Metropolitan Borough of]
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Since made compulsorily notifiable, the number of notifications have been as follows:—
| Year. | Year. | ||
| 1929(1-31 December) | 61 | 1933 | 156 |
| 1930 | 445 | 1934 | 107 |
| 1931 | 152 | 1935 | 123 |
| 1932 | 172 | 1936 | 71 |
The Borough Council has established a clinic for the purpose of
providing means by which parents may have their children protected
by artificial immunisation. With proper safeguards as adopted there,
it may confidently be said that no risk attaches to the method.
The work of the Diphtheria Immunisation Clinic has been undertaken
by Dr. Donnelly, who has very kindly furnished me with the
following Report:—
Schick testing and inoculation began in March, 1927. The figures
for successive years are as follows :
Year.
Positive.
Number of Schick Tests
Total.
Fully
Inoculated.
Partly
Inoculated.
No. of
Inoculations
given.
Negative.
Unknown
Result.
1927
214
152
8
374
410
15
1233
1928
85
75
14
174
168
65
580
1929
21
27
7
55
72
15
221
1930
15
27
—
42
65
3
199
1931
6
7
—
13
17
5
58
1932
3
—
1
4
11
—
33
1933
5
4
—
9
32
1
97
1934
2
8
—
10
11
—
33
1935
45
16
—
61
164
14
514
1936
14
7
21
73
—
105
Number of Schick Re.tests.
Positive
Negative.
Unknown Result
Total.
1927
1928
34
134
13
181
1929
8
55
3
66
1930
5
39
1
45
1931
3
21
2
26
1932
2
15
—
17
1933
1
—
1
1934
3
21
—
24
1935
4
99
—
103
1936
1
69
—
70
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