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Whooping cough
After the record low number of 65 in 1961 the cases in 1962 fell
yet further, to 41 in all. Whooping cough is however a preventable disease,
and attention is called 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 in 1959 the number of cases had continued to
fall, and in 1962 they dropped still further—from 143 to 103. 83 of
these were pulmonary and were scattered evenly through the three
divisions of the borough. The biggest number for men occurred in the
age group 45-55 but for women the biggest number occurred in the
age group 20-25. As in previous years there were many more cases in males
than in females as far as respiratory tuberculosis was concerned, there
being 51 males and 32 females. With the drop in cases and the small
increase in population the rate per 100,000 came down to 47, the lowest
on record. The death rate, however, rose to 10 from 8.