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immediately by a further sample each of which was reported as Grade 1.
Food Poisoning
Notifications (corrected) totalled five.
Salmonella organisms were isolated in four instances but the source
of infection in each case was undiscovered.
There were no deaths.
Milk in Schools
The arrangements for sampling milk at London County Council Schools
continued during the year. A total of 3 samples were submitted for
examination, all of which satisfied the prescribed tests.
SECTION E
PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS DISEASE
The total number of notifications of infectious disease,
excluding Food Poisoning, during 1959 was 897, as compared with
1,077 in 1957 and 342 in 1958.
Of the eight cases of poliomyelitis six were paralytic. Two of
these did not reside in the Borough but the disease was diagnosed in
a Bethnal Green hospital,
There were no cases of Diphtheria.
The number of cases of other diseases notified is shown in
Table 10 which follows, and requires no special comment.