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Puerperal pyrexia
Under the Puerperal Pyrexia Regulations, 1951, all
cases of the disease occurring within the Borough, whether
the patients are Kensington residents or not, have to be
accepted. During 1952, eighty-three cases were notified as
having occurred in Kensington, and of these thirty-eight were
patients normally resident outside the Borough,
Seventy-nine of the cases were treated in hospital and
no death occurred.
Information was received in the Public Health Department
concerning seventeen patients normally resident in Kensington
who were notified under the Regulations in other London areas.
Pneumonia
There are various forms of pneumonia, but the only kinds
notifiable are acute primary and acute influenzal.
Seventy-one notifications were received during the year,
fifty-seven being acute primary pneumonia and fourteen being
acute influenzal pneumonia. Of the total, thirty-eight cases
were treated in hospital.
During the year, the number of deaths from pneumonia
(all forms) was ninety-eight and fourteen deaths were certified
as due to influenza.
Dysentery
Thirty-one cases of dysentery were notified in 1952,
all of which were bacillary in origin, the majority being
due to Sonne bacillus. Generally speaking the cases were
of a mild type and there were no deaths.
Erysipelas
Of the eleven cases notified, five were admitted to
hospital. There were no deaths.
Meningococcal infection
Pour cases of this disease were notified during the year
and all the patients were removed to hospital. Three deaths
were recorded during 1952.
Malaria
Only one case of malaria was reported during the year
and it was found that the patient had a previous history
of the disease during the last war.
Poliomyelitis
There were twenty-one cases of acute poliomyelitis
notified and confirmed during the year; seventeen of the cases
showed symptoms of paralysis. Two of the cases died.