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concerning Greenwich residents were brought to the notice of the
department, a figure of 18 being returned for the years 1959 and
1958.
All patients received hospital treatment. There were no
fatalities.
Meningococcal Infection.—There was one notification
received during the current year compared with two for the previous
year, none for 1958, 2 during 1957, a nil return for 1956 and 5
for 1955.
Acute Encephalitis. (Infective or Post Infectious).—A Nil
return is recorded for the current year, a similar return to those for
the years. 1959, 1958, 1957, 1956, 1955 and 1954.
Ophthalmia Neonatorium.—In respect of this disease one
notification was received. There was none for 1959 and one was
recorded for 1958.
Poliomyelitis.—It has previously been pointed out that the
vagaries of notification procedure have led to misleading statistics
concerning specified administrative areas but this proved of little
consequence during the current year as only 4 notifications of
paralytic poliomyelitis were received, none of which concerned a
Greenwich resident.
Of school children undertaking a poliomyelitis inoculation
course, 1,492 received two and 3,923 received their third injection
during the year. For persons between the ages of 16 and 40 years
the figures were 1,419 and 2,320 respectively.
Malaria.—Compared with a nil return for 1960 one notification
of benign tertian was registered for 1959.
Tuberculosis.—During the year 57 notifications in respect of
confirmed cases of tuberculosis were received compared with 46
for 1959. Of these, 50 were of the pulmonary type and 7 nonpulmonary,
i.e., tuberculosis of parts of the body other than the
lungs.