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Southwark 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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6
DYSENTERY
There was a marked increase in Dysentery during the year,
not only in this district, but throughout the country as a
whole. The entire question of the control of this disease and
the method by which it is spread is receiving very urgent
attention by all medical officers and those interested in preventive
medicine.
Whereas some few years ago Sonne Dysentery was a disease
more or less confined to closed institutions, for some unknown
reason it now seems to be escaping from these compact communities,
and is, in fact, becoming endemic throughout the
population of the whole country.
| Immunisation completed | Whooping Cough | Diphtheria | Combined | Confirmed diagnoses of previously Immunised cases | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whooping Cough | Diphtheria | |||||
| Under 5 years of age | 88 | 637 | 571 | 33 | _ | |
| Over 5 ,, ,, ,, | 1 | 33 | 9 | 21 | — | |
| Booster injections | — | 116 | — | — | — | |
| Total | 89 | 786 | 580 | 54 | — | |
| Total 1,455 | Total 54 | |||||
| Disease | 0- | 1- | 5- | Age groups:— | 65- | 75- | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15- | 25- | 45- | |||||||
| Dysentery | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 |
| Gastro Enteritis | 1 | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | 1 |
| Whooping Cough | 1 | _ | _ | — | _ | — | _ | _ | 1 |
| Meningococcal Infection | — | 1 | 1 | _ | 1 | 1 | _ | _ | 4 |
| Encephalitis | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| Tuberculosis: | |||||||||
| Respiratory | — | — | — | 2 | 19 | 23 | 5 | 2 | 51 |
| Other forms | — | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | _ | _ | 1 | 5 |
| Poliomyelitis | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| Totals | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 22 | 25 | 5 | 3 | 65 |
| „ 1949 | — | 2 | 3 | 27 | — | 27 | 13 | — | 72 |