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Islington 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington Borough]
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London (Measles and Whooping Cough) Regulations, 1938.
Home visiting of measles and whooping cough cases was carried out by the
Home Visitors as under :—
No. of Investigations
No. of Ineffective
Measles Whooping Cough Visits Re-visits
2,758 477 434 3
Acute Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis
There were rather more confirmed cases in 1952 as compared with the previous
year, but fortunately there were considerably fewer than in some recent years—
as shown in the table below. None of the cases of poliomyelitis during the year
had fatal results. It will be noted that the majority of the cases commenced in
August.
The cases reported for each of six years are set out as under :—
| No. of Cases reported | 1952 | 30 | |||||||||||
| 1951 | 21 | ||||||||||||
| 1950 | 54 | ||||||||||||
| 1949 | 88 | ||||||||||||
| 1948 | 11 | ||||||||||||
| 1947 | 52 | ||||||||||||
| No. of CONFIRMED cases | 1952 | 15 | |||||||||||
| 1951 | 8 | ||||||||||||
| 1950 | 31 | ||||||||||||
| 1949 | 62 | ||||||||||||
| 1948 | 9 | ||||||||||||
| 1947 | 22 | ||||||||||||
| (a) | Onset dates | Mar. | Apr. | June | Aug. | Sept. | Oct. | Nov | |||||
| 1952 | — | — | — | - | 1 | — | 2 | 8 | — | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| 1951 | 1 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 2 | — | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | |
| 1950 | 1 | — | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 2 | — | |
| 1949 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | 6 | 17 | 18 | 8 | 4 | |
| 1948 | — | 1 | — | 2 | — | 1 | — | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 1947 | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | — | |
| (b) | Under 1 | 5— | 15— | 25 and over | |||||||||
| 1952 | — | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | ||||||||
| 1951 | — | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| 1950 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 3 | ||||||||
| 1949 | 3 | 35 | 17 | 2 | 5 | ||||||||
| 1948 | — | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| 1947 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 3 | ||||||||
| (c) | Deaths—1952—Nil. | ||||||||||||
| 1951—Nil. | |||||||||||||
| 1950—2 (6 years ; 12 years). The onset of the disease of the 6year-old waa in 1949. | |||||||||||||
| 1949—2 (2 years ; 26 years). | |||||||||||||
| 1948—Nil. | |||||||||||||
| 1947—3 (10 months ; 5 years ; 24 years). | |||||||||||||