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Puerperal Pyrexia.
Two cases were notified and were removed to hospital.
Scabies.
Three cases were notified, all of which were treated at home.
Scarlet Fever.
Sixteen cases were notified, and thirteen of them were removed to hospital.
Smallpox.
In April, 1950, a ship arrived at the Port of Liverpool having on board a suspecied
case of smallpox, later confirmed as a case of mild discrete smallpox. Eleven
passengers, presumed to be contacts were kept under surveillance by this Department for
a period of sixteen days.
In May a young woman who had arrived in London by air from Switzerland was
removed to hospital as a suspected case of generalised vaccinia. As a precaution, the case
was treated as suspected smallpox, and a person staying in Holborn who had been a possible
contact was kept under surveillance until the diagnosis was confirmed.
In July a ship arrived at the Port of London, having landed a case of modified
smallpox at Aden. Thirty passengers, presumed to be contacts, who came to Holborn
after disembarkation, were kept under surveillance by this Department for a period of
sixteen days. In cases where they left the area before the sixteenth day, the Medical
Officer of Health of the district to which they were proceeding was informed.
In August a person who had just returned from a fortnight's travelling on the
Continent called at the Casualty Department of a hospital in the Borough, and was suspected
to be suffering from smallpox but was found not to be so suffering.
In October a provisional diagnosis of suspected smallpox was made in the case of
two seamen at the Outpatients Department of a London hospital. A possible contact
living in this Borough who had attended the hospital, was kept under surveillance until
the cases were later re-diagnosed as cliickenpox.
Tuberculosis.
See page 51.
Whooping Cough.
Ninety-four cases were notified, twenty-eight of which were removed to hospital.
Four were subsequently re-diagnosed, one as acute catarrhal laryngitis, one as broncho
pneumonia, and two as bronchitis.