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Three of the cases were members of one family, a boy
of 6 years and a girl of 13 years were paralytic cases, and a
girl of 10 years who did not have paralysis. The first of
these cases was the brother who had just returned from a school
holiday in Wales and the other two patients were admitted to
hospital after an interval of 9 days and a further 17 days. None
of these children had been immunised,
Also connected with this family outbreak was another
boy of 8 years of age, a cousin of the other children. He had
received three injections of poliomyelitis vaccine. He was
never very ill and showed no paralysis.
At about the same time (September, 1961) but unconnected
with the previous cases, two sisters contracted poliomyelitis.
Both had been immunised and the diagnosis in the case of the
younger one of 14 years, was at first in some doubt but was
finally shown to be non-paralytic poliomyelitis. Her sister
of 16 years of age was admitted to hospital a week later with
some paralysis of the left leg. Both made good recoveries.
Earlier in the year there had been a case of paralytic
poliomyelitis of the bulbar type in an infant of seven months
of age. He was treated in St. Anns Hospital, Tottenham, and
he made a complete recovery. He had not been immunised.
Seven other cases of poliomyelitis were notified but
were not confirmed.
Scarlet Fever
During the year 38 cases of scarlet fever were notified.
None of them was seriously ill and in the majority of cases the
disease was very mild.
The table showing the number of notifications of infectious
disease is given in the statistical section. Diseases
other than those mentioned above call for no special comment.