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by air from Cairo and was sent direct from London Airport to
the hospital in October, 1959. The case was apparently not
notified at the time of admission to hospital and the absence of
notification only came to light when the child was transferred
to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital at Stanmore in
January, 1960.
The second case was also in a child (age 1 year 4 months)
who contracted the disease in Egypt also during the month of
October (but 1960 in this case). The child who had recovered from
the acute stage of the illness was not admitted to hospital and
could not be traced at the address which was given in Hampstead.
The remaining case was in a young married woman of 23
years who had paralysis of the left shoulder girdle. She had
not been immunised. She made a satisfactory recovery.
Encephalitis
There were four cases of acute encephalitis following
attacks of mumps. Three cases were in young women in their
middle twenties and one in a man of 43 years of age.
Tuberculosis
The figures for the notification of tuberculosis are not
included with the other notifiable infectious diseases and they
are also separated in the tables given in the statistical section.
The number of new cased of respiratory tuberculosis was
45 males and 16 females and non-respiratory tuberculosis, 2
males and 8 females as compared with 58, 35, 2 and 4 respectively
for 1959.
A total of 4 persons died from this disease as compared
with 8 deaths in the previous year.
The notification rates for pulmonary tuberculosis are
given in the table below for the period 1948 to 1958 for England
and Wales and for Hampstead for the period 1948 to 1960.