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22
Notifications of Infectious Disease
Disease
Notifications
Removed
to
Hospital
Diagnosis
not Confirmed
Diagnosis
Established
Diphtheria - - - -
Dysentery 13 8 — 13
Erysipelas - - - -
Food Poisoning 37 13 — 37
Measles 389 12 — 389
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 1 1 — 1
Pneumonia:—
Acute Primary 1 — — 1
Influenzal - - -
Paratyphoid Fever - - -
Poliomyelitis:—
Paralytic - - - -
Non-Paralytic - - - -
Puerperal Pyrexia 36 36 — 36
Scabies 15 — — 15
Scarlet Fever 5 1 — 5
Typhoid Fever - - - -
Whooping Cough 14 — — 14
Poliomyelitis
For the fourth consecutive year, no case of poliomyelitis occurred in
Westminster. The number of corrected notifications of poliomyelitis,
including polio-encephalitis, for each year since 1949 is given below.
Immunisation against poliomyelitis began in 1956:—
1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964
29 13 1 10 9 4 15 7 5 1 1 1 — — — —
Food Poisoning
During the year 37 notifications were received of persons suffering
from food poisoning. Nine were single cases; 19 others related to children
attending a Day Nursery, whilst the remaining nine were involved in three
family outbreaks.
The incident involving 19 children occurred following lunch at a
Day Nursery. The children concerned received hospital treatment.
The symptoms were fairly severe in the initial stage but were of short
duration. Staphylococcus aureus was found to be the causative
organism, and was isolated from stool specimens and also from a tin used
for containing macedoine vegetables, one of the ingredients of the meal.