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LEPROSY
No notifications of leprosy were received during the year.
MALARIA
A case of malaria, contracted abroad, was notified by a hospital in the borough.
MEASLES
Notified cases of measles totalled 1,690 during 1967. In the previous year 1,469 notifications
were received.
MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTION
No cases were notified, compared with eight during 1966.
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM
There was one notified case, compared with two last year.
POLIOMYELITIS
It is gratifying once again to report that no cases of poliomyelitis occurred in the
borough during the year. Details of vaccination against poliomyelitis will be found on page 97
PSITTACOSIS
A diagnosis of psittacosis was confirmed in a resident of another borough, who had
purchased a parrot in a street market in this borough. The parrot was destroyed before an
examination could be made.
PUERPERAL PYREXIA
Notifications of puerperal pyrexia numbered 15 (26 in 1966). Of these 5 related to
residents of Tower Hamlets.
SCABIES
Cases of scabies which came to notice during the year totalled 450, compared with 104
in 1966. Patients and contacts numbering 450 were given medicinal baths and their clothing
disinfected at the Council's cleansing station. The number of baths given was 780.
Instances of scabies are increasing, and although it ceased to be a notifiable disease on
1st April, 1965, by the co-operation of the general practitioners information is forwarded to
the Health Department of persons suffering from the condition, and arrangements made for
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