[Report 1926] / School Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council.
- Cumberland County Council
- Date:
- 1926
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1926] / School Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
19/96 page 17
![With regard to the outbreak at Hallbankgate, this occurred quite suddenly in the Autumn of 1926, when, within a period of ten days, there were 11 cases with 3 deaths. Owing to the \drulence of the outbreak, the Schick Test was omitted, and 140 children, including 40 under School age, were inoculated. Since the inoculations no fresh cases have occurred. At Brampton there were 13 cases notified, 10 occurring between August and December 21st, with one death. The Schick Test was applied to 210 children attending the Elementary Schools, and to 96 attending the Secondary School. In ihe former 240 were inoculated, including 56 under School age. (4f these 8 were inoculated only once, and 5 twice. Here 2 children, 1 having had one inoculation and the other 3 inoculations a month previously subsequently took Diphtheria. In the latter 69 were inoculated, 7 without the Schick 'best. But the fact that one child got Diphtheria a month after having 3 inoculations does not in the slightest degree throw doubt on the efficacy of the inoculations, because immunity is not completely conferred until at the earliest three months after the third inoculation. With the above noted exceptions no furth(?r cases of Diphtheria occurred up to the end of the year. At the time of writing this report, f understand from the Medical Officer of Health, that there has been one cast'An a child who received three inoculations. Enquiry into this case is being made. An outbreak also occurred at Elimby during November and December, 1926. 24 cases occurred, but the outbreak was not of a virulent ty]Hu and only one .case i)rovcd fatal. The epidemic died out during the Christmas holida\s, had it continued it was propo.sed to apply the Schick Test to all children in the Elimby School. Some ca.ses were remf)vcd](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29132368_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
