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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Fulham 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham Borough]
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Food Poisoning
Fourteen cases were notified. Routine investigations were carried out in twelve
cases and in only one case Salmonella Typhi murium was isolated from specimens submitted
for bacteriological examination.
The remaining two cases occurred in a hospital and were due to Salmonella Infection
(Oranienberg).
Dysentery
During January there were two small outbreaks, one in a Day Nursery involving
twenty one of a total of forty-six children, with four other cases among the family
contacts, and the other outbreak at a small private school involving twelve children, one
teacher and one of the two kitchen staff. In addition there were two cases among the
family contacts.
In September another Day Nursery was investigated and seventeen out of a total of
fifty three children were found to be infected, with two secondary cases occurring in
family contacts.
Scabies and Allied Conditions
Treatment was arranged for fifty-eight adults and one child at the Kensington
Medicinal Baths. Twelve children were notified as having had treatment at the L.C.C.
School Treatment Centre, Sedlescombe Road.
NOTIFICATIONS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE, 1956 (In age groups)
| -1 | 1-2 | 3-4 | 5-9 | 10-14 | 15-24 | 25-44 | 45-64 | 65+ | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | – | 7 | 11 | 20 | 2 | 4 | – | – | – | 44 |
| Whooping Cough | 26 | 46 | 49 | 80 | 4 | – | 1 | – | – | 206 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis Paralytic | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | 11 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis Non-paralytic | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 6 |
| Measles | 6 | 14 | 19 | 13 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 54 |
| Diphtheria | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Acute Pneumonia | – | – | 2 | – | – | 1 | – | 7 | 8 | 18 |
| Dysentery | 4 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 9 | 13 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 113 |
| Smallpox | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Acute Encephalitis Infective. | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Acute Encephalitis Post Infectious | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 2 |
| Typhoid Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Paratyphoid Fever | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 |
| Erysipelas | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 1 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 |
| Food Poisoning | 2 | 1 | – | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | – | – | 14 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | – | – | – | – | – | 17 | 17 | – | – | 34 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Epidemic Diarrhoea | 4 | 8 | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 17 |
| Scabies | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 5 | 2 | – | 9 |
| Tuberculosis Pulmonary | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 25 | 41 | 40 | 13 | 131 |
| Tuberculosis Non-Pulmonary | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 |
| 48 | 107 | 115 | 141 | 22 | 68 | 89 | 64 | 28 | 682 |