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TUBERCULOSIS DEATH RATE. The death rate of 34 from
all forms of tuberculosis per hundred-thousand population
for 1949 was the lowest ever recorded.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES. Apart from the comparatively
large number of cases of acute poliomyelitis notified (47),
the incidence of infectious diseases during 1949 showed no
untoward variations from that in the previous year.
It is noteworthy that there was almost an entire absence
of diphtheria in the borough. Only two cases occurred, both
in adult persons who had never been immunised. One of the
two cases was a "carrier" of C.diphtheriae mitis, and was not
considered to be dangerous from the infective point of view.
It can he accepted that this excellent result is to a
large extent due to the preventive public health measure of
immunisation against diphtheria undertaken so vigorously by
the Council from 1934 to 1948, since when it has been
continued by the London County Council.
From the foregoing observations, it will be seen that
the public health of the borough remained satisfactory during
1949.
VITAL STATISTICS
The table set out on the next two pages gives the
important vital statistics for 1949, together with comparative
figures for the previous seven years.