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Diseases. Authority for Notification.
Typhoid Fever Public Health (London) Act, 1936—Sections 192
(Including Paratyphoid) and 304.
Typhus Fever Do.
Whooping Cough County of London (Measles and Whooping Cough)
Regulations, 1938 to 1948.
For each of the above a fee of 2/6d. is payable by the Local Authority to the
medical practitioner if the case occurs in his private practice, or 1 /- if the case occurs in
his practice as medical officer of a public body or institution.
During the year 269 cases of infectious disease were notified, of which 55 were
removed to hospital. These are tabulated in age groups (see Table No. 6, page 20).
Comparative figures of infectious disease for the years 1920-1949 are also shown (see Table
No. 7, pages 22 and 23).
Cerebrio-Spinal Meningitis.
One person admitted to hospital suspected to be suffering from this disease was
actually found to be suffering from influenza.
Diphtheria.
Two cases were notified and were both removed to hospital. One was re-diagnosed
as laryngitis whilst in hospital. One person admitted to hospital for observation was
found to be suffering from tonsilitis. Graph No. 3, facing this page, shows a comparison
between the incidence of diphtheria and the number of persons immunized against diphtheria
during the years 1920 to 1949.
Erysipelas.
Six cases were notified and three were removed to hospital. One case was
re-diagnosed in hospital as seborrhiœc dermatitis.
Food Poisoning.
Three cases were notified and removed to hospital. In one case, a boy aged three
months, the causative organism was found to be Salmonella Typhimurium. 1 he other
two cases were husband and wife and the causative organism was not discovered.
Measles. .
172 cases were notified and 31 were removed to hospital. Two of the cases removed
to hospital were subsequently re-diagnosed as German measles and respiratory catarrh
respectively.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Three cases were notified and two were removed to hospital.
Pneumonia (Acute Primary and Acute Influenzal).
Nine cases were notified and two were removed to hospital.
Poliomyelitis.
Three cases were notified and removed to hospital, one case being finally rediagnosed
as lymphocytic meningitis. One of the other two cases died in hospital.