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Cerebro-spinal fever
11
10
2
Continued fever
-
—
—
Diphtheria
38
37
1
Dysentery
35
28
3
Erysipelas
28
17
-
Food poisoning or suspected food
poisoning
6
-
-
Infective enteritis or summer
diarrhoea
27
26
3
Malaria
3
3
—
Measles
707
132
1
Ophthalmia neonatorum
6
5
-
Puerperal fever
5
5
-
Puerperal pyrexia
3
38
1
Scarlet fever
110
97
-
Smallpox
-
-
-
Typhoid or enteric fever
1
1
-
Whooping Cough
23
91
4
DIPHTHERIA IMUNISATION. During the year, 1961 children were fully
inoculated, including 893 "schools" cases. Fifty-six cases attended'
the Clinic at St. Mary's Hospital.
Following the receipt of Ministry of Health Circulars Nos.2627
and 2677 steps were taken to give as wide publicity as possible to the
facilities for immunisation available in the Borough. These included
the insertion in three local newspapers of the stereos provided by the
Ministry and the exhibition of posters at Council premises and on
shingle bins throughout the Borough. Leaflets were also distributed
by the Health Visitors and Women Sanitary Inspectors and made available
for the public at the Council's offices and other establishments.
In addition to the foregoing, the parents of all unimmunised
children under 5 years of age were approached by the Health Visitors
in accordance with Ministry of Health Circular No.2713, and local
practitioners were circularised asking them to support the campaign
generally and to take special steps regarding their own patients,
either by referring them to the Council's immunisation clinic or by
treating them under the scheme for immunisation by private practitioners
At the end of the year it was considered that 66.7% of the child
population under 5 years of age, and 68.4% between the ages of 5 and 15
years, had been immunised.
VACCINATION. The latest return available is for the year 1941.
This shows that of the 1,218 children whose births were registered during
that year, 56.8 per cent. were successfully vaccinated, and 11.2 per cent.
were exempted on production of statutory declarations of conscientious
objection. Insusceptibility, removals, deaths, not traced etc., account for the remaining 32.0 per cent.
TUBERCULOSIS. Notification Register. New cases notified comprised
195 of pulmonary tuberculosis and 40 of non-pulmonary tuberculosis. The
number of cases on the register at the end of the year was 782, as
compared with 729 cases at the end of the year 1941.
Dispensary Treatment. As from 1st April 1942 there was an adjustment
01 the districts served by the two Dispensaries, a portion of the
Borough formerly in the area of the St. Mary's Hospital Dispensary being
transferred to the area of the paddington Tuberculosis Dispensary.
The death rate for pulmonary tuberculosis was 0.84 as compared with
1.09 for the previous year, and for all forms of tuberculosis the death
rate was 1.04 as against 1.25. Particulars of the work carried out
are shown in the following table:
Paddington
Tuberculosis
Dispensary
St.Mary's Hospital
Tuberculosis
Dispensary
No. of patients examined for 1st
time (excluding contacts) 546 l6l
No. of above found tuberculous 102 39
No. of contacts examined 116 19
No. of contacts found tuberculous 1 4