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Poliomyelitis
Two paralytic and four non-paralytic cases of poliomyelitis were
notified. With the exception of one of the paralytic cases, a man
aged twenty-two years, all of the patients were under five years of
age. In only one instance was the residual paralyses at all extensive.
The cases occurred during May, September, November and December. Only
one of the children, a non-paralytic case, gave a history of having
received poliomyelitis vaccine. There were no deaths.
Dysentery
Dysentery, due to infection with shigella sonnei was again prevalent
during the year, 686 cases being confirmed bacteriologically
compared with 341 during the previous year. 291 were under five years
of age, 211 between five and fifteen years of age, and 184 over the
age of fifteen years.
Zymotic Enteritis
There were only 2 cases of Enteritis during the year. This
condition is notifiable in Southwark during the quarter July to
September inclusive for children under 5 years of age.
Pneumonia
Forty cases of Pneumonia were notified, as compared with 80
for the previous year. Twenty-eight of these occurred over the age
of 45 years.
Puerperal Pyrexia
All of the 16 notifications of Puerperal Pyrexia were received
from hospital. Thirty-one cases were notified in 1959.
Encaphalitis
One case of Infective Encephalitis occurred in a child of four
years of age. There were no cases of post-infectious Encephalitis.
Scabies
Only the first case of Scabies in a household in any four-week
period is notifiable in London and 37 such cases were so notified,
an increase of 16 from the previous year.
Food Poisoning
An institutional outbreak which occurred in June involved a total
of fifty-four cases. The majority of the remaining cases of food
poisoning occurred singly. A man and wife were notified as sufferins
from the condition, as was a father and his three year old child.
The institutional outbreak was found to be due to Salmonella typhimurium
phage type 2C. Whole hearted co-operation was forthcoming