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Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis.
Fourteen (confirmed) notifications of this disease were received
during the year. Ten of these cases were removed to hospital.
Seven were paralytic and seven non-paralytic. There was one
death from this disease in Chislehurst and Sidcup area.

Scarlet Fever.
One hundred and forty-three cases of Scarlet Fever were
notified, giving an attack rate of 1.7 per 1.000 population. Fifty
of these cases were removed to hospital and the remainder home
nursed.
This disease continued to be mild in character and the distribution
of the cases was fairly even throughout the area.
There were two " return " cases.
No deaths from this disease were recorded in the district.
Diphtheria.
No cases occurred in the Urban District during 1953.
Diphtheria Immunisation.
The following figures, which have been supplied by the County
Medical Officer, show that, during the year 1953, a total of 1.142
children received Primary Inoculations, and 1,254 Reinforcing
Inoculations. (Figures for 1952 were 1,461 Primary and 1.328
Reinforcing Inoculations.)
A total of 13.412 children under the age of fifteen years on
31st December. 1953. had completed a course of immunisation (at
any time since 1st January. 1939). out of a total of 21.155—
i.e., 63%.