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DISEASES NOT NOTIFIABLE IN FINSBURY
Chickenpox
About a hundred cases come to the knowledge of the department
each year; in 1955 the figure was 94. The great majority are mild
including all those known in 1955 and recovery has been rapid and complete,,
A visit is paid to these cases if circumstances allow
Mumps
There were a large number of cases in 1954 and 134 cases were
known- The majority were mild but one case developed encephalitis
and orchitis, recovery however being subsequently complete. In other
years many fewer cases have occurred and in 1955 only 14 became known.
Infective Hepatitis
In 1953 it was known that a number of cases amounting to a mild
outbreak occurred in the Borough and nine cases came to the knowledge
of the departments Otherwise only occasional cases have occurred and
in 1955 2 such cases were known. A family or school contact between
cases is often noted but there has been, as far as is known, no extensive
outbreak connected with a particular pool of infection Enquiries
are made in regard to each known case.
Food Poisoning
Please see Section 'E' - Food
Influenza and Influenzal Pneumonia
There has been no severe outbreak of influenza since the war involving
more than a few cases of influenzal pneumonia, The largest
number of notifications of the latter was in 1951 with 7 cases and one
death. In 1955 there was one case.
Typhus
The only occasion in recent years when any persons in the Borough
were known to have been in possible contact with Typhus was in 1951
when 2 seamen arrived from an infected port. They were placed under
surveillance.
Glandular Fever
An outbreak of a disease which may have been a variety Glandular
Fever occurred in a neighbouring Borough but did not spread, at any
rate as was known, into this Borough in 1955. Three cases, however,