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Notifications of respiratory tuberculosis numbered
95 males and 42 females. The decline in incidence continues,
the total number of cases notified being 20 less than in
the previous year and 75 less than in 1957.
It is unfortunate that from time to time cases of open
tuberculosis are brought to notice in which the sufferer
is unco-operative and will not accept treatment. There is
no provision in the Public Health (London) Act for dealing
with such patients.
Other notifiable diseases
During the year 8 notifications were made of acute
influenzal pneumonia, 26 of acute primary pneumonia, and
6 of meningococcal infection.
Non notifiable infectious diseases
In order to obtain a picture of the incidence of nonnotifiable
infections - of which those caused by viruses
are becoming of increasing public health importance - much
reliance must be placed on the co-operation of general
practitioners and hospital doctors. This co-operation is
acknowledged with gratitude. it has proved most valuable
in the past, for example, in giving early information about
influenza, and details of possible cases of virus encephalitis
and meningitis.
In 1961, there was no evidence to suggest that such
conditions as virus infections of the throat and nose -
particularly in youngpeople - virus pneumonia, encephalitis
and meningitis, and winter vomiting were unduly prevalent