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Kensington 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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is as follows:-
| Number of pre-school children immunised | 830 |
| " " school « " | 449 |
| " " re-inforcing injections given | 905 |
| " " children attending for pre-Schick tests | 393 |
| " which gave a positive reaction | 338 |
| " of children attending for post- Schick tests | 1,051 |
| " proving negative | 913 |
| " proving positive | 20 |
| " who failed to attend for reading | 118 |
Enteric fever
Two cases of typhoid fever, four cases of
paratyphoid B fever and one case of paratyphoid A fever
were notified during the year. All the cases were
treated in hospital and there was no death.
The investigations of the two cases of typhoid, which
occurred in the same family, revealed that the infection
had been contracted abroad.
In two of the five cases of paratyphoid fever, the
source of infection was unestablished, but the remaining
three patients almost certainly contracted the disease abroad.
Puerperal Pyrexia
On 1st August, 1951, the Puerperal Pyrexia Regulations,
1951, came into operation and replaced regulations which had
been in force in London and the remainder of the country
respectively. Under the new regulations, the provision which
allowed London authorities to remit, if necessary, notifications
received from hospitals within their areas to the authorities
responsible for the patients' home addresses, has been
withdrawn. Kensington now has to accept notifications for
persons normally resident outside the borough who contract
the disease in Kensington hospitals.
During the year, 22 cases of this disease were notified
and 15 were treated in hospital. Of this total, 3 were
patients normally resident outside the borough. Information
was received in the Public Health Department concerning 3
patients normally resident in Kensington who were notified
in other London areas.
No death occurred amongst these cases.
Pneumonia
There are various forms of pneumonia, but the only kinds
notifiable are acute primary and acute influenzal. One
hundred and forty-nine notifications were received during the
year, seventy patients being certified as suffering from acute
primary pneumonia and seventy-nine from acute influenzal
pneumonia. Of these one hundred and forty-nine cases, twentyfour
were treated in hospital.
During the year, the number of deaths from pneumonia
(all forms) was ninety-four and forty-one deaths were certified
as due to influenza.
Dysentery
Eighty-one cases of dysentery were notified during the