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Year
Confirmed cases
Deaths
1955 30 Nil
1956 21 Nil
1957 15 1
1958 4 Nil
1959 8 Nil
1960 3 Nil
1961 7 Nil
1962 3 Nil
1963 1 Nil
1964 - Nil
Acute Encephalitis
No case of acute encephalitis was notified during the year.
Measles
Of the 378 cases notified during 1964, 11 cases were admitted to
hospital for treatment. One death occurred during the year.
Ophthalmia neonatorum
Three babies were notified during 1964; one was treated at home,
and two were treated in hospital. Information was also received of one baby
born to a Kensington mother in hospital outside the borough, who contracted
the disease. All the babies recovered without injury to sight.
Gastro-enteritis
This disease is notifiable in children up to the age of five
years. The number of cases reported during the year was three. Two were
removed to hospital for treatment.
Scabies
The number of scabies notified during 1964 was 4l.
Tuberculosis
During the year, 117 new cases of tuberculosis were notified, of
which 96 were respiratory and 21 non-respiratory. The following table shows
the number of cases added to and the number removed from the notification
register during the years-
Respiratory
NonRespiratory
Total
MFMF
On register of notifications
on 1st January, 1964 640 465 63 85 1,253
Notified for the first time
during the year 60 36 7 14 117
Brought to notice other than
by notification 35 29 2 2 68
Removed from register on
account of having -
(a) recovered 40 28 7 3 78
(b) removed from district,
lost sight of, etc. 123 93 12 12 240
(c) died 10 7 - 17
Remaining on register on
31st December, 1964 562 402 53 86 1,103