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NOTIFICATIONS OTHER THAN TUBERCULOSIS
The number of notifications received during the year increased by 367;
1,741 cases of infectious disease being notified compared with 1,374 in 1968.
No cases of poliomyelitis or diphtheria occurred.
TYPHOID FEVER
On the 8th June, Mrs. M. left Bombay and arrived at London Airport the
next day. She had recently married and came to Lambeth to join her husband's
family. A celebration party was held on the 14th June.
Mrs. M. felt unwell on the 22nd June and was admitted to hospital on the
30th. On the 8th July information was received that she was suffering from
typhoid fever.
From her arrival in this country the patient had had little contact with
persons other than her family and friends at the wedding party. Among these
were some who had previously suffered from typhoid fever and who might have
been carriers of the disease. All specimens proved negative however and it was
assumed that the patient had contracted the infection abroad. No secondary
cases occurred.
PARATYPHOID FEVER
Mr. R. visited Spain on holiday and returned on the 27th July. He was
taken ill on the 3rd August and was admitted to hospital on the 11th. Three
days later the laboratory confirmed the presence of salmonella paratyphoid B.
phage type Beccles in the patient's stool.
Mr. R. had spent a few days at work, visited friends and stayed overnight
with his parents in Wales before his admission to hospital. All known contacts
were traced and investigated but no secondary cases occurred.
MEASLES
There was an increase in the incidence of measles, 1,521 cases being
notified compared with 900 in 1968. The majority of the cases occurred in the
first quarter of the year.
SCARLET FEVER
Forty-seven cases were notified compared with 56 in 1968.