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Scarlet Fever.—Altogether there were 221 notifications
received, of which 9 were not confirmed. The corrected total of
212 compares with 92 in 1951 and 160 in 1950. The distribution
was 76 in East Greenwich ; 58 in West Greenwich; 6 in St. Nicholas,
Deptford ; and 72 in Charlton and Kidbrooke.
Forty-nine cases received hospital treatment.
No deaths resulted from this disease.
Erysipelas.—Compared with 4 in 1951, 16 cases were notified
during the current year and of these, 8 were removed to hospital.
There were no fatalities.
Zymotic Enteritis or Epidemic Diarrhoea (Children under
5 years of age).—Originally 12 cases were notified but this figure
was modified and 8 were eventually recorded as confirmed, compared
with 15 for the previous year. Of these, 6 were under one
year and 2 between 1 and 5 years.
No deaths were registered among these cases, all of which
received hospital treatment.
Dysentery.—Twenty-two notifications were received in
respect of this disease compared with 93 for the previous year.
Sixteen of these, all of the Sonne type, resulted from a minor outbreak
at the Rest Centre, Blackheath. For this reason and the
highly infectious nature of Sonne Dysentery, removal of every case
for treatment in hospital was considered the most effective means
of limiting the spread of the infection. Seven families were
ultimately involved over a period of less than 4 weeks but despite
diligent investigation, in no instance could infected food be established
as the primary causative agent. Of the 16 cases, twelve of
which were children, ten were confirmed from 23 specimen faeces
taken for bacteriological examination by this department.
The remaining 6, five of which were removed to hospital,
proved isolated cases for investigation of all contacts revealed no
positive results.
Scabies.—Ten cases were so notified compared with 4 for the
previous year.
Treatment of all cases of scabies is carried out at the Tunnel
Avenue Centre.