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Whooping cough
Cases again increased and although no major outbreak occurred
the total was the highest since 1955. This calls attention to the desirability
of young children being protected by immunisation, as whooping
cough is in general the more serious the younger the child is.
Whooping cough immunisation can be combined with diphtheria
immunisation, thus reducing the number of injections the young child
requires.
Tuberculosis
After the dramatic fall shown in the previous year the number of
cases in 1960 dropped only a little further—from 143 to 134. 119 of
these were pulmonary and were scattered evenly through the three
divisions of the borough. The biggest number occurred in the age
group 25-45 followed closely by the age group 45-65. As in previous
years there were many more cases in males than in females as far as
respiratory tuberculosis was concerned, there being 78 males (an increase
of 5) and 41 females (a decrease of 10).