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primary and (2) acute influenzal pneumonia. Four cases were notified during the year of
the acute primary type, which is the lowest figure for many years.
During the year, the number of deaths from pneumonia (all forms) was 147, of
which 129 were of persons over sixty-five years of age.
FOOD POISONING
Fourteen isolated cases of food poisoning were notified during the year and five
other cases were reported by the Public Health Laboratory. The following table gives an
analysis of the causes
6 salmonella typhimurium
1 salmonella enteritidis
1 salmonella Stanleyville
11 unknown
OPTHALMIA NEONATORUM
Two babies were notified as suffering from this disease during 1965, one of whom
was treated in hospital, the other at home.
POLIOMYELITIS
A West Indian male aged forty-five (living in U.K. nine years) was notified and
removed to hospital. However, the diagnosis was not confirmed. No other case of poliomyelitis
was notified during the year.
Immunisation against poliomyelitis was offered to members of the department and
their families, and 112 persons were immunised by oral vaccine.
PUERPERAL PYREXIA
During 1965, the number of cases of this disease notified was seventy-three, of
whom forty-eight were persons normally resident outside the borough. All cases occurred
in hospital.