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16 REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH FOR 1959
Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever
Of 12 cases reported during the year, five were subsequently
confirmed as typhoid and three as paratyphoid. Two of the former
had been previously living abroad.
Diagnosis was not confirmed in the four remaining cases.
One death occurred in a male aged 58 years.
Puerperal Pyrexia
During the year 99 cases were notified, of which 95 occurred in
hospital and four at home. Thirty-four of the hospital notifications
referred to patients whose home addresses were outside the borough.
Information was also received of 34 cases, referring to Wandsworth
residents whose confinements took place in hospitals located
in other Metropolitan boroughs.
Sonne Dysentery
In addition to the cases for which formal notifications were
received and which, in the main, were single unrelated cases, a
number of other cases were discovered by investigation of diarrhoea
outbreaks which occurred at five Day Nurseries and two Schools in
the Borough.
Details of positive cases, and the number of faecal specimens
examined from actual and suspected cases before the outbreaks were
finally cleared are given below.

Influenza, Acute Influenzal Pneumonia and Acute Primary Pneumonia
Acute influenzal pneumonia and acute primary pneumonia are
the notifiable forms of pneumonia.
One hundred and thirty-four cases of the former and 132 cases of
the latter were notified.
Deaths classified under influenza were 80 and this figure includes