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Post-Vaccinal Encephalitis, etc.
No case of Post-Vaccinal infection was reported.
Meales.
441 cases of Measles and German Measles were reported to the
Medical Officer of Health from various sources (principally from L.C.C.
schools). 100 of the cases were treated in hospitals. Four deaths were
attributed to Measles.
Notification 0/ Zymotic Enteritis.
Although there were no deaths from Dysentery, Typhoid or Paratyphoid
during 1936, four cases of Dysentery and nine cases of Typhoid
including Paratyphoid were notified. It was, therefore, important
that the more simple cases of Diarrhoea should be made notifiable
throughout the year. The Council, therefore, agreed to determine the
Order made in January, 1915, requiring the notification of Zymotic
Enteritis during the four calendar months—June, July, August and
September—and requested the Minister of Health to make an Order
under Section 143 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1936, requiring
that the notification of Infectious Disease shall apply in the Metropolitan
Borough of Poplar to the disease of Zymotic Enteritis (Epidemic Diarrhoea)
when occurring in children under the age of five years. (The Minister
of Health has now made the Order and it came into operation on 15th
March, 1938.)
(A summary of the notified cases which were visited by the Health
Visitors is given in the Maternity and Child Welfare Section, page 125.)
Pneumonia.
284 cases of Acute Primary Pneumonia and 47 cases of Acute Influenzal
Pneumonia were notified during the year, 137 of the patients being treated
in hospitals. 73 notified patients died—62 Acute Primary Pneumonia
and 11 Acute Influenzal Pneumonia.
Malaria.
Three cases of Malaria were notified during the year. One patient
was treated in hospital.