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INFECTIVE DISEASES
Malaria
No cases were reported.
Erysipelas
Fifty-four cases were notified.
Other Infective Diseases
Nineteen deaths occurred from syphilis.
Scabies
Twenty-five notifications were received.
The arrangement made in 1955 with the Battersea Borough
Council whereby the cleansing of women residents (and children
under school age) of Wandsworth was undertaken by the Battersea
Cleansing Station, continued to operate during 1956. A fee of 5s. Od.
per treatment to be paid by Wandsworth to Battersea for this service
has now been agreed on.
A total of 91 treatments was given during the year at the Battersea
Cleansing Station.
At the Council's Disinfecting Station, 30 treatments were given.
Food Poisoning
Three hundred and sixty-two formal notifications were received
during the year. Two hundred and forty-nine were unrelated cases
and 12 were outbreaks involving two or more persons.
The majority of the single cases were only slightly affected, and
where bacteriological investigation was carried out, organisms likely
to have caused the illness were discovered in 28 cases. The organisms
were Salmonellae typhimurium, enteriditis, anatum, bovis
morbificans, heidelberg, and emek.
In nine of the 12 outbreaks it was not possible to identify the
causative agent; in the remaining three, Clostridium welchii,
Staphylococci and Salmonella typhimurium were respectively
isolated.
Full reports on the major outbreaks were submitted to the
Ministry of Health in accordance with Circ. 46/49 and revised Memo.
188/Med.