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ILLEGITIMACY.
The proportion of illegitimate births per 1,000 live births is lower
than for several years. The figures are:-
1965
201
1966
201
1967
212
1968
198
INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
The total number of notifications received during I968 was 590 in
comparison with 1,109 in 1967. The difference is almost entirely due to
the decrease in the number of cases of measles notified in 1968, compared
with the previous year.
Notifications.
The following Tables show (1) the number of cases of infectious
disease notified during the year 1968, with the comparative figures for
the previous five years; (2) the number of notifications divided into age
groups; and (3) the number of cases notified in each ward of the borough
TABLE 1
Notifiable disease
Number of cases notified
1968
1967
1966
1965
1964
1963
Diphtheria
-
-
-
-
-
-
Dysentery
14
11
30
31
40
93
Encephalitis
1
-
-
-
-
-
Enteric Fever
1
1
-
5
8
9
Erysipelas
1
3
4
2
4
2
Food Poisoning
18
12
20
15
40
33
Infective Jaundice
41
-NOT NOTIFIABLE-
Malaria
2
4
1
1
4
3
Measles
296
847
515
1,084
428
1,296
Meningococcal Infection
1
2
3
4
1
4
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
-
-
2
2
3
4
Pneumonia
1
11
5
4
19
17
Poliomyelitis:
Paralytic
-
-
-
-
-
1
Non-Paralytic
-
-
-
-
-
-
Puerperal Pyrexia
33
48
54
73
90
76
Scarlet Fever
34
15
18
27
19
16
Tuberculosis (all forms)
101
77
97
139
129
178
Whooping Cough
46
78
69
34
43
103
TOTALS
590
1,109
818
1,421
828
1,835
NOTE: Cases of mistaken diagnosis are excluded from
the above Table.