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VI. PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS
AND OTHER DISEASES
Notifications.
A .total of 1,231 notifications of cases of infectious
disease were received during the year. Table 11, page 58
shows details of the notifications received, together with
age groups.
There were no notifications of Smallpox, Enteric Fever,
Acute Encephalitis, Cholera, Continued Fever, Relapsing Fever,
Typhus, Glanders, Hydrophobia, Zymotic Enteritis or Plague.
The Sanitary Inspectors paid 381 visits to premises
where cases of infectious disease, or contacts, occurred.
Diphtheria.
Six notifications were received, but the .diagnosis was
confirmed in only 3 cases, as compared with 10 last year.
The number of children immunised at L .C ,C . clinics was 1,470,
of which 1,016 were under 5 years of age. 1,143 children
were given a secondary or reinforcing injection.
A supply of anti-toxin is kept in the Department for use
by general practitioners in emergency cases. 264 swabs were
forwarded by general practitioners to Mile End Group Laboratory
where bacteriological examinations are carried out on
behalf of the Borough Council.
The mortality rate for the year was nil, compared with
26 per 100,000 population in 1901.
Food Poisoning.
There were no outbreaks of food poisoning , but ten
Individual cases of suspected food poisoning were notified.
In one case the causal agent was said to be a duck egg, but
this was not confirmed, although Salmonella Typhi-murium was
Isolated.
Scabies.
Scabies is still notifiable under the County of London
(Scabies) Regulations, 1943. The number of cases formally
notified was 67, which shows a marked decrease from that
notified in 1944, namely 1,155.
The number of persons who received medicinal baths and
whose clothing was disinfected was 99? as follows
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