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Mr. A. E. Vickers, Senior Sanitary Inspector, was appointed
Chief Sanitary Inspector as from 18th October.
In May and June Messrs. A. F. Saunders and A. J. Lansley
resigned their appointments as Sanitary Inspectors after 7 and
10 years' service with the Council, having obtained similar
appointments in other London Boroughs. Messrs. E. Wall
and J. H. Massey were appointed to fill the vacancies-
INFECTIVE DISEASES
There has been an increase in the amount of infective
disease during the year, the number of notifiable diseases having
risen from 3,913 in the previous year, to 5,474. Measles
is mainly responsiblefor this increase. 2.471 cases were reported
during the year, compared with 429 in 1944.
314 cases of Dysentery have been notified compared with
241 in the previous year; 74 of these occurred among patients
in Springfield Mental Hospital, and 177 in Tooting Bec Hospital.
There were no deaths.
Five cases of typhoid fever were notified. There were no
deaths.
There were 10 cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis with
one death, compared with 13 and two in the previous year.
Five cases of polio-myelitis were notified, and there were
two deaths. No case of this disease was notified in 1944.
847 cases of scabies have been notified.
1,561 cases of scabies were treated at the Council's
Cleansing Station under the supervision of the two bathing
attendants. The majority of the cases are now treated by
the benzyl benzoate method.
BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS.
All these examinations are carried out by the Camberwell
Research Laboratories.
During the year 963 diphtheria cultures and 838 specimens
of sputum were examined. Twenty-one cultures for dysentery,
twenty-three for streptococcus hæmolyticus and fifty-two for
staphylococcus aureus were also examined.