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Disease.
Notifications.
Removed
to
Hospital.
Diagnosis
not Confirmed.
Diagnosis
Established.
Dysentery 97 29 5 92
Erysipelas 1 — — 1
Food Poisoning 46 8 1 45
Malaria (origin abroad) 4 1 — 4
Measles 205 14 — 205
Meningococcal Infection 1 1 — 1
Ophthalmia Neonatorum. 1 .1 — 1
Paratyphoid 1 1 — 1
Pneumonia—
Acute Primary 7 — — 7
Influenzal 5 — — 5
Poliomyelitis-
Paralytic 6
Non-Paralytic 1
Pueperal Pyrexia 29 27 — 29
Scabies 43 1 — 43
Scarlet Fever 29 6 — 29
Typhoid Fever 3 1 1 2
Whooping Cough 55 8 — 55
No cases of the following diseases were notified during the year:
Anthrax; Cholera; Continued Fever; Diphtheria; Encephalitis; Glanders;
Hydrophobia; Membranous Croup; Plague, Relapsing Fever; Smallpox;
Typhus Fever.
Poliomyelitis.
Seven cases of Poliomyelitis, six paralytic and one non-paralytic,
were notified during the year, compared with 15 in 1955. The only
non-paralytic case was a girl aged five years. Of the paralytic cases,
two were adults and the rest were children aged 6½ years, 5½ years,
4 years and 20 months respectively. There were no fatalities.
One child, aged 6½ years, with paralytic disease was nursed at home.
This is an unusual occurrence nowadays because of the difficulty of
providing the ancillary services needed for the efficient care of such
cases.
The unfortunate feature of the notifications is that the non-paralytic
cases arc outnumbered by 6 to 1. In 1955 the proportion for Westminster
was 2.75 to 1, and for England and Wales as a whole 1.5 to 1. The
ratio of paralytic to non-paralytic cases varies greatly. The causes of
such variations are not completely understood.
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